In Delaware, a married woman, her husband joining, may convey her land, but must acknowledge the same apart from her husband, Code of 1874, pp. 478, 501, §§ 1469, 1614. Her real estate, mortgages, stocks, and silver plate owned before and acquired after marriage remain her separate property subject to her antenuptial debts, but not subject to her husband's disposition, or his debts or contracts. She may not convey her separate property, nor dispose of the profits without her husband's consent under seal. The husband is entitled to curtesy, p. 478. She may reinvest, with his consent, a mortgage debt paid to her, or the proceeds of property so sold in other real estate or stocks or mortgages, the same to remain her separate property, p. 478. If the husband fails to support her while living apart from him, she is entitled to her property, if distinguishable from his, free of his debts, and she may sue and be sued and contract about it, and sue for the redress of personal wrongs and torts. If living apart without his default, he is not, but otherwise is, liable for her debts; when they again cohabit, he becomes liable for all her debts contracted during the separation, p. 479, and Laws of 1885, c. 611. A judgment for antenuptial debts may be recovered against her alone, p. 479, § 2. She may receive her wages for labor not for her family, sue therefor in her own name, hold against all, including the husband, and deposit subject to her sole right to withdraw without the husband's consent, § 3. She may sue or be sued touching her separate property, as if unmarried; but he cannot sue alone respecting it, although she may join him in her suits. She may make contracts and sue and be sued thereon as if unmarried, § 4. She may, if twenty-one years of age, dispose of her property by will; but if intestate it goes to her heirs subject to curtesy. Ante-marriage settlements may be made to define marriage rights and in case of descent. If she dies without issue the husband has a life estate in one-half of her real estate after payment of her debts, § 5 as amended, Acts of 1875, c. 165. She may release to the husband the control of her property and the income for the mutual benefit, and in writing revoke it, pp. 479, 480, Act of 1873. All before and after acquired property other than from her husband is her separate property, and the profits thereof are subject to neither his disposal, nor debts, Laws of 1875, p. 289, § 1. A married woman may, as if unmarried, buy real estate and secure the purchase-money by any appropriate instrument with a warrant of attorney, upon which the husband is not liable unless a party thereto, § 3.

In Florida, all the property of a married woman owned before or acquired after marriage is her separate estate, and not liable for the husband's debts, McClellan's Digest, c. 150, § 1. The rights of husband and wife, derived under the Spanish law, when in force, remain the same, subject to formalities of conveyance, § 2. Her separate estate, both that owned before and acquired after marriage, is the husband's, §§ 3, 4. She cannot sue him for the profits, nor can he charge for his care, § 5. Her property can only be conveyed jointly with the husband with due formalities, § 6. Her estate is alone liable for her antenuptial debts, § 7. Her estate must be inventoried and recorded to be free from liability for his debts, - any omission will, however, confer no rights upon the husband, § 8. A married woman may convey her real estate as if unmarried if the husband joins, if due formalities are observed, and if she privily acknowledges that her act is free, § 9. All former conveyances by a married woman with husband's joinder, made valid, § 10. She may convey her estate or release dower by attorney, if the power be executed in the presence of two witnesses, duly acknowledged and recorded, and the husband joins, § 11. A married woman may, after due proceedings had, be licensed by the court to become a free dealer and to manage her own estate, sue and be sued, and contract in all respects as if unmarried, §§ 13, 14, 15. A married woman may dispose of her property by will as if unmarried, §16.

In Georgia, all the property of the wife, at the marriage or after acquired, remains her separate property, liable for her debts only, Code of 1882, §§ 1753, 1754. When separate from her husband, her own and her children's acquisitions vest in her; and if she dies intestate they go to her children, failing which, to her next of kin, § 1756. The husband is liable for necessaries, unless she leaves him without provocation, when notice relieves him, § 1757. She may with her husband's consent become a public trader, and may contract, sue and be sued, as if unmarried, and the profits are her own, § 1760. When the husband or wife dies without issue, the survivor is the sole heir; but if she dies intestate leaving children, the children and the husband share alike, §§ 1761, 1762. She may deposit of her own or her children's earnings up to $2000, in any savings bank of the State subject to her control as if unmarried, § 1772. Her paraphernalia, consisting of her own and her children's apparel, her watch, suitable ornaments and useful personal articles, is not subject to her husband's debts or contracts, § 1773. She may sue and be sued alone when the action concerns her separate property, is between her husband and herself, and when she is separated from him, § 1774. The wife as to her separate estate may act as if unmarried, but must comply with every restriction of the marriage contract. She cannot bind it by suretyship or by assuming her husband's debts; and any sale of it to her husband's creditor to extinguish his debt is void, § 1783. Her contract of sale of her separate estate with her husband or trustee is invalid unless b\ leave of county court, § 17S5. A loan may be made to her with the consent of the husband, who La liable for, but has no control over it, to be used strictly for the proposed purpose, on penalty of conversion, §§ 2134, 2135. She may make a will, where power so to do is reserved in the creation of her estate or by marriage contract, where, with an estate absolute or in expectancy, the husband consents thereto, where in execution of a vested power, and where, if abandoned or divorced, she controls her earnings as if unmarried, § 2410. Prescription does not run against her, § 2686, nor the Statute of Limitations, § 2926, unless attaching before marriage, § 2927.