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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XL
REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY

Chapter 708
MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY

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F.S. 708.08

708.08 Married women’s rights; separate property.—

(1) Every married woman is empowered to take charge of and manage and control her separate property, to contract and to be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to sell, convey, transfer, mortgage, use, and pledge her real and personal property and to make, execute, and deliver instruments of every character without the joinder or consent of her husband in all respects as fully as if she were unmarried. Every married woman has and may exercise all rights and powers with respect to her separate property, income, and earnings and may enter into, obligate herself to perform, and enforce contracts or undertakings to the same extent and in like manner as if she were unmarried and without the joinder or consent of her husband. All conveyances, contracts, transfers, or mortgages of real property or any interest in it executed by a married woman without the joinder of her husband before or after the effective date of the State Constitution are as valid and effective as though the husband had joined.

(2) Any married woman who conveyed or mortgaged her separate real property without the joinder of her husband before the effective date of the State Constitution, and any person claiming by, through, or under her, shall have 2 years after June 2, 1983, to file a notice of lis pendens and to bring an action based on the nonjoinder of the husband contesting the validity of any such conveyance or mortgage; and, if the action is not brought and a notice of lis pendens is not filed within the time allowed, she, and any person claiming by, through, or under her, shall be forever barred from bringing an action to contest the validity of the conveyance or mortgage. This subsection shall not be construed to revive any action that has been barred.

History.—s. 1, ch. 21932, 1943; s. 2, ch. 70-4; s. 1, ch. 83-67.

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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 708.08

Total Results: 20

Connor v. SOUTHWEST FLA. REGIONAL MED. CTR.

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1995-12-21

Citation: 668 So. 2d 175, 1995 WL 752303

Snippet: abrogated. Ch. 21977, Laws of Fla. (1943); see § 708.08, Fla.Stat. (1993). Further, the responsibilities

Waite v. Waite

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1992-02-11

Citation: 593 So. 2d 222, 1991 WL 87223

Snippet: (1979), repudiates the doctrine. In Florida, section 708.08(1), Florida Statutes (1989), originally passed

Sturiano v. Brooks

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1988-03-24

Citation: 523 So. 2d 1126, 1988 WL 26252

Snippet: Corren v. Corren, 47 So.2d 774 (Fla. 1950). [4] § 708.08, Fla. Stat. (1977). [5] Raisen v. Raisen, 379

Lee v. Lee

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1983-09-29

Citation: 438 So. 2d 514, 1983 Fla. App. LEXIS 24456

Snippet: section 5 of the Florida Constitution, section 708.08 Florida Statutes (1981), and case law, see Palumbo

Holland v. Holland

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1981-10-28

Citation: 406 So. 2d 496

Snippet: respects as if the parties were unmarried. See § 708.08, Florida Statutes (1979), providing for the right

Hughes v. Russell

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1980-11-26

Citation: 391 So. 2d 256, 1980 Fla. App. LEXIS 17706

Snippet: holding or disposition of their property. Section 708.-08, Florida Statutes (1979), provides in relevant

Raisen v. Raisen

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1979-12-20

Citation: 379 So. 2d 352

Snippet: Dodson v. National Title Insurance Co.; sections 708.08 and 708.09, Florida Statutes, (1977). The inconsistency

West v. West

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1979-06-13

Citation: 372 So. 2d 170

Snippet: states have enacted statutes similar to Sections 708.08 and 708.09, Florida Statutes (1977), the Married

Ago

Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1975-05-28

Snippet: Fla., 1974); Art. X, s. 5, State Const.; and ss. 708.08 and725.07, F.S. Cf. AGO 063-47 where the opinion

Legge v. Albert A. Legge Land Co.

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1973-04-10

Citation: 276 So. 2d 208, 1973 Fla. App. LEXIS 6899

Snippet: thereof. 11 Fla.Jur. Dower § 12 (1957) and F.S. § 708.08 F.S.A. Appellant’s counsel in his brief relies

First National Bank of Clearwater v. Morse

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1971-05-07

Citation: 248 So. 2d 658, 1971 Fla. App. LEXIS 6558

Snippet: has no right in the wife’s property under F.S. § 708.08 F.S.A. either before or after death, and also because

Holwell v. Zofnas

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1969-06-25

Citation: 226 So. 2d 253, 1969 Fla. App. LEXIS 5257

Snippet: Florida Statutes 1967, § 693.01,1 § 708.04 2 and § 708.08,3 F.S.A., provide that a deed or real property

Gaston v. Pittman

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1969-05-28

Citation: 224 So. 2d 326

Snippet: Florida Married Women's Emancipation Act of 1943, §§ 708.08 and 708.09, Fla. Stat., F.S.A., enacted subsequent

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. v. Playford

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1969-01-10

Citation: 217 So. 2d 584, 1969 Fla. App. LEXIS 6362

Snippet: husband and wife is valid. Florida Statutes Section 708.08 (1967), F.S.A. gives the wife the right to obligate

DeLong v. Larkin

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1968-04-03

Citation: 208 So. 2d 830, 1968 Fla. LEXIS 2320

Snippet: S. Sec. 708.08, F.S.A. Cases 4 construing Article XI before the effective date of Sec. 708.08 are not

Posner v. Posner

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1968-01-23

Citation: 206 So. 2d 416

Snippet: contractual rights, is set forth in Fla. Stat. § 708.08, F.S.A. Public policy permits a married woman to

Kochan v. American Fire and Casualty Company

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1967-04-26

Citation: 200 So. 2d 213, 1967 Fla. App. LEXIS 4948

Snippet: 479 * * *." (Emphasis added). Florida Statutes § 708.08, F.S.A., sometimes referred to as the Married Woman's

Glasser v. Columbia Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1967-03-29

Citation: 197 So. 2d 6, 1967 Fla. LEXIS 4049

Snippet: herself and husband in entireties." [10] F.S. Sec. 708.08-708.10, F.S.A. [11] Blood v. Hunt, 97 Fla. 551

Smith v. Martin

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1966-03-02

Citation: 186 So. 2d 16, 1966 Fla. LEXIS 3654

Snippet: the validity of Section 693.01 * * * and Section 708.08, Florida Statutes [F.S.A.], but merely applied

Judd v. Schooley

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1963-12-13

Citation: 158 So. 2d 514

Snippet: women's "emancipation statutes," such as Sections 708.08-708.10, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., enacted twenty