In MISSOURI, a married woman, deserted or whom her husband fails to support, may, by leave of court, sell and convey her real estate or any undisposed-of personal estate, which he has in her right, or receive any such personal property from the holder and give a valid discharge therefor, and her earnings and those of her minor children, free of his debts, and use the proceeds of such sales, personal property and earnings, to support herself and family, Revised Statutes of L889, §§ 68576861. When her real estate is taken by eminent domain, the compensation therefor may be invested so as to secure her the same benefits as such real estate, § 6862. The wife of a man under guardianship may, by leave of court, join with the guardian in conveying her real estate, and release dower in so doing, § 6863. She shall be deemed a feme sole so far as to enable her to carry on business, contract, sue and be sued, without joinder of her husband. She is entitled to exemption and homestead laws except where her husband has already claimed them for the protection of his property, § 6864. A married woman, living apart from her husband by reason of ill-usage, may, by leave of court, have the sole use and enjoyment of her real estate, §§ 6865-6867. Her real estate, its income and the proceeds of its sale and her husband's interest in that owned by her at the marriage and afterwards acquired by gift, grant, devise, or inheritance, are free of his debts and cannot be conveyed by him without her joinder; but the annual products are liable for family necessaries, for labor and materials thereon, and for improvements, § 6868. Her real estate and personal property at marriage and acquired after by gift, bequest, or inheritance, or by purchase with separate money, or personal wages or compensation for personal injuries, with the profits thereof, remains her separate property, free from his debts, except what he has become possessed of with her express assent in writing, but is subject to her antenuptial debts and for his debts for family necessaries, § 6869. The husband's property, except such as he may have acquired from the wife, is exempt from all her antenuptial debts, § 6870. She may convey her real estate by deed or power of attorney executed and acknowledged jointly with her husband, but covenants in deeds bind her no farther than is necessary to convey all her right, title and interest, §§ 2396, 2397. An estate of homestead free from attachment execution, sale or mortgage, is provided for, §§ 5435-5445. A married woman may dispose of her property by will, subject to her husband's right of curtesy, § 8869.

In Montana, a married woman may sue and be sued as if sole. If sued with him she may defend for herself and for him, if he neglect, Compiled Statutes of 1887, §§ 7, 8, 1444. She may dispose of her property by will, but may not without her husband's written consent deprive him of more than one third of her real or of her personal estate, §§ 435, 1447. If husband or wife dies intestate, leaving a child or its issue, the survivor takes an equal share of her property; if more than one child, the survivor takes one third; if no issue, the survivor takes one half; if no issue or kindred, the whole, § 534. When she dies, the entire community property goes to him, except that she may dispose by will of the portion for her support, § 550. Upon the death of husband one half the community property goes to the wife, the other half being disposed of as his separate property, § 551. She may convey her real estate with her husband, being examined privily as to the same, p. 660, §§ 254-257. All her before and after acquired property is free of her husband's debts, except for family necessaries, such property to be thus exempt to be recorded, § 1432. Women retain the same legal existence after marriage as before, and the same rights as her husband, and may sue for any injury to her rights, provided this does not confer the right to vote or hold office, § 1439. All work performed by a married woman for one not her husband shall, unless there is a written agreement to the contrary, be presumed to be performed on her separate account, § 1442. She may be executrix, administratrix, guardian, or trustee, § 1443. A husband is not liable for his wife's antenuptial liabilities, nor for any judgment recovered against his wife, § 1445. Her contracts as to her separate property, labor, or services do not bind her husband, but do bind her and her separate property, § 1446. She may make contracts, § 1448. A homestead of 160 acres without a town, city, or village or one fourth of an acre within, up to

§2,500 is exempt from judicial process, § 322. A married woman may do business on her own account, Acts of 1891, p. 263, §1, by applying to the district court and publishing notice of her application, and obtaining an order of court, which shall be recorded, § 2. She is then responsible for the maintenance of her children, § 4. Her husband is not responsible for her debts.

In Nebraska, all a married woman's property at the marriage and its profits, and that coming to her by descent, devise, or the gift of other than her husband, or acquired by purchase, remains her separate property, as if unmarried, and free from his debts or disposal, but is liable for necessaries furnished her family, if execution against her husband is returned unsatisfied. Compiled Statutes of 1889, c. 53, § 1. She may bargain, sell, and convey, and contract concerning her property, as fully as a married man, § 2. She may sue and be sued, as if unmarried, § 3. She may do business and service on sole account, and her earnings therefrom are her sole property, and may be used and invested in her own name, § 4. A woman married without, if her husband comes to reside in, this. State, enjoys rights there acquired, § 5. The husband's property is not Liable for her antenuptial debts, § 7. She may dispose of her property by will, as if unmarried, c. 23, § 123. She may likewise manage, control, lease, or convey her real estate by deed or will, c. 73, § 42. She is not bound by the covenants in a joint deed of herself and husband, § 49. A homestead up to $2,000, and one hundnd and sixty acres without, or two lots within, an incorporated city or village, are exempt from execution, c. 3G, § 1. If a husband or wife dies intestate leaving only one issue, one half goes to the survivor. So if instead of issue the deceased left father, mother, brother, or sister. If more than one issue, one third goes to the survivor. If no issue or kindred, the whole. Dower and curtesy are abolished. The widow is also entitled to a small allowance from her deceased husband's estate, c. 23, §§ 30, 176. Marriage extinguishes the right of a woman who was unmarried when appointed to act as executrix or administratrix, §§ 170, 188.