Maryland Statutes
Subtitle 2 - Spouses' and Third Persons' Rights
Section 4-205 - Right to Deal With Married Woman as if Unmarried

(a)    A husband may sue his wife on a contract made with her, as if she were unmarried.
    (b)    (1)    A third person may take any of the following actions with or against a married woman, as if the married woman were unmarried:
            (i)    make a contract;
            (ii)    sue on the contract, whether the contract was made before or during the woman’s marriage;
            (iii)    sue for a tort, whether the woman committed the tort before or during her marriage; and
            (iv)    execute on a judgment.
        (2)    A third person may maintain an action at law or in equity against a married woman in her married name.
    (c)    If the rent is in arrears under a lease entered into with a married woman for a definite term or a term of years renewable forever, then, as if the woman were unmarried, the landlord may levy on goods under distress.
    (d)    (1)    A depositary that returns to a married woman money she deposited before or during her marriage is validly discharged from any obligation concerning the money by a receipt from the woman.
        (2)    If the deposit was made in fraud of the husband’s creditors, a creditor of the husband may attach or, by injunction, restrain the payment of the money.

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