30-2-4 - Wife's right to wages -- Actions for personal injury.
30-2-4. Wife's right to wages -- Actions for personal injury.
A wife may receive the wages for her personal labor, maintain an action therefor in herown name and hold the same in her own right, and may prosecute and defend all actions for thepreservation and protection of her rights and property as if unmarried. There shall be no right ofrecovery by the husband on account of personal injury or wrong to his wife, or for expensesconnected therewith, but the wife may recover against a third person for such injury or wrong asif unmarried, and such recovery shall include expenses of medical treatment and other expensespaid or assumed by the husband.
No Change Since 1953