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Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65

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Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 0.01

Short title . This Act may be cited as the Rights of Married Persons Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324; 87-286.) ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 1

Rights to sue and be sued . A married person may, in all cases, sue and be sued without joining his or her spouse as if unmarried. ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 2

Defending in own right or for other . If husband and wife are sued together, either may defend for his or her own right and, if either ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 3

When the husband has deserted his family, the wife may prosecute or defend, in his name, any action which he might have prosecuted or defended, and, under like ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 4

Recovery of damages . For all civil injuries committed by a married person, damages may be recovered from that person alone, and his or her spouse shall ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 5

Neither husband or wife shall be liable for the debts or liabilities of the other incurred before marriage, and (except as herein otherwise provided) they shall not be ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 6

Contracts . Contracts may be made and liabilities incurred by any married person and may be enforced against that person to the same extent and in the ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 7

Earnings . A married person may receive, use, and possess his or her own earnings and sue for those earnings in his or her own name, free ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 9

Property . A married person may own in his or her own right real and personal property obtained by descent, gift, or purchase and may manage, sell, ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 10

Should either the husband or wife unlawfully obtain or retain possession or control of property belonging to the other, either before or after marriage, the owner of the ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 11

In case the husband or wife abandons the other and leaves the state, and is absent therefrom for one year, without providing for the maintenance and support of ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 12

All contracts, sales or incumbrances made by either the husband or wife, by virtue of the power contemplated in the preceding section, shall be binding on both, and ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 13

The husband or wife affected by the proceedings contemplated in the 2 preceding sections may have the order or judgment of the court set aside or annulled, by ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 14

A husband or wife may constitute the other his or her attorney in fact, to control and dispose of his or her property for their mutual benefit or ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 15

(a)(1) The expenses of the family and of the education of the children shall be chargeable upon the property of both husband and wife, or of either of ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 16

Neither the husband nor wife can remove the other or their children from their homestead without the consent of the other, unless the owner of the property shall, ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 17

When the husband or wife is under legal disability and therefore incapable of executing a deed or mortgage, and relinquishing or conveying his or her right to homestead ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 18

The petition shall be verified by the oath of the petitioner, and shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court . Notice ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 19

If the court is satisfied upon the hearing that the petition was made in good faith, and the prayer thereof ought to be granted, then the court shall ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 20

The court shall require of the petitioner, at the time and as one of the conditions of entering the judgment, such security for the protection of the interests, ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 21

All deeds or mortgages authorized by and executed under the order of any court, made as hereinbefore provided, shall be valid and shall convey all the homestead interest ...

Illinois Rights of Married Persons Act - 750 ILCS 65, Section 22

Nothing in this Act abolishes or prevents the creation and enjoyment of the estate of tenancy by the entirety with respect to any devise, conveyance, assignment, or other ...

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