Spousal Property Rights: Related Laws
Alaska
- Alaska Statutes > Chapter 41 - Uniform Disposition of Community Property Rights at Death
- Alaska Statutes > Chapter 77 - Community Property Act
Arizona
California
- California Codes > Family Code > Division 4 > Part 2 - CHARACTERIZATION OF MARITAL PROPERTY
- California Codes > Family Code > Division 4 > Part 3 - LIABILITY OF MARITAL PROPERTY
- California Codes > Family Code > Division 4 > Part 4 - MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF MARITAL PROPERTY
- California Codes > Family Code > Division 7 - Division of Property
- California Codes > Probate Code > Division 2 > Part 1 - EFFECT OF DEATH OF MARRIED PERSON ON COMMUNITY AND QUASI-COMMUNITY PROPERTY
Delaware
Florida
- Florida Statutes > Chapter 708 - Married Women's Property
- Florida Statutes > Chapter 732 > Part II - Elective Share of Surviving Spouse; Rights in Community Property
Hawaii
Idaho
- Idaho Code > Title 15 > Chapter 2 > Part 2 - Succession of Quasi-Community Property — Elective Share of Surviving Spouse
- Idaho Code > Title 15 > Chapter 6 > Part 4 - Community Property Right of Survivorship
- Idaho Code > Title 32 > Chapter 9 - Husband and Wife — Separate and Community Property
Kansas
- Kansas Statutes > Chapter 23 > Article 26 - Marital Property Rights
- Kansas Statutes > Chapter 23 > Article 28 - Division of Property
Kentucky
- Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 392 - Dower and Curtesy
- Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 404 - Contracts and Separate Estate of Married Women
Louisiana
- Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2801 - Partition of community property and settlement of claims arising from matrimonial regimes and co-ownership of former community property
- Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2801.1 - Community property; allocation and assignment of ownership
- Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2801.2 - Community property; valuation of goodwill
- Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2802 - Rendition of judgment of partition; prerequisite
- Louisiana Codes > Civil Code > BOOK IV > Title III - Marital Property
Michigan
- Michigan Laws > Chapter 557 - Property of Husband and Wife
- Michigan Laws > Chapter 558 - Estates in Dower
- Michigan Laws 558.1 - Right of widow to dower
- Michigan Laws 558.2 - Dower in lands exchanged; election
- Michigan Laws 558.3 - Dower in mortgaged lands; mortgage before marriage
Minnesota
Montana
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Mexico
- New Mexico Statutes > Chapter 40 > Article 3 - Property Rights
- New Mexico Statutes > Chapter 40 > Article 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application
- New Mexico Statutes > Chapter 40 > Article 3 - Enforcement
- New Mexico Statutes > Chapter 40 > Article 3 - Voluntary Acknowledgment of Paternity
North Carolina
- North Carolina General Statutes > Chapter 30 - Surviving Spouses
- North Carolina General Statutes > Chapter 31C - Uniform Disposition of Community Property Rights at Death Act
Ohio
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Utah
- Utah Code > Title 30 > Chapter 2 - Property Rights
- Utah Code > Title 75 > Chapter 2b - Uniform Disposition of Community Property Rights At Death Act
Vermont
Virginia
- Virginia Code 64.2-300: Applicability; definitions
- Virginia Code 64.2-301: Dower or curtesy abolished
- Virginia Code 64.2-302: When and how elective share may be claimed by surviving spouse
- Virginia Code 64.2-303: Extension of time until after determination of action for construction of will or extent of augmented estate
- Virginia Code 64.2-304: Rights upon claiming an elective share
Washington
- Washington Code > Chapter 11.07 - Nonprobate assets on dissolution or invalidation of marriage
- Washington Code > Chapter 26.16 - Rights and liabilities -- Community property
West Virginia
- West Virginia Code > Chapter 48 > Article 3 - Property, Rights and Liabilities of Married Women; Husband and Wife
- West Virginia Code > Chapter 48 > Article 7 - Equitable Distribution of Property
- West Virginia Code > Chapter 48 > Article 29 - Property, Rights and Liabilities of Married Women; Husband and Wife