Earnings of either spouse appropriated to own use pursuant to written authorization of other spouse deemed gift.
1. When the husband has given written authority to the wife to appropriate to her own use her earnings, the same, with the issues and profits thereof, is deemed a gift from him to her, and is, with such issues and profits, her separate property.
2. When the wife has given written authority to the husband to appropriate to his own use his earnings, the same, with the issues and profits thereof, is deemed a gift from her to him, and is, with such issues and profits, his separate property.
Last modified: February 25, 2006