Florida Statute 708.10 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XL
REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY

Chapter 708
MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY

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F.S. 708.10

708.10 Married women’s rights; construction of law.—This law shall not be construed as:

(1) Relieving a husband from any duty of supporting and maintaining his wife and children;

(2) Abolishing estates by the entireties or any of the incidents thereof;

(3) Abolishing dower or any of the incidents thereof;

(4) Changing the rights of either husband or wife to participate in the distribution of the estate of the other upon his death, as may now or hereafter be provided by law;

(5) Dispensing with the joinder of husband and wife in conveying or mortgaging homestead property.

History.—s. 3, ch. 21932, 1943.

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Amendments to 708.10

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 708.10

Total Results: 5

Solomon v. Davis

100 So. 2d 177, 67 A.L.R. 2d 774

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Feb 5, 1958 | Docket: 1226970

Cited 21 times | Published

thereby imposed upon him under our law. See F.S. § 708.10, F.S.A.; Contractors Contract NOY5948 v. Morris

Birge v. Simpson

280 So. 2d 482

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jul 17, 1973 | Docket: 1687464

Cited 12 times | Published

McRae v. McRae, 52 So.2d 908 (Fla. 1951), and F.S. § 708.10 (1971), F.S.A.

Scott v. Hotel Martinique

48 So. 2d 160, 1950 Fla. LEXIS 1435

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Oct 24, 1950 | Docket: 543647

Cited 7 times | Published

of Florida, Acts of 1943, and appearing as Section 708.10, Florida Statutes, same F.S.A., that the Act

Beers v. Public Health Trust of Dade County

468 So. 2d 995, 10 Fla. L. Weekly 715, 1985 Fla. App. LEXIS 14029

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: May 21, 1985 | Docket: 1402250

Cited 2 times | Published

Florida legislature. Cf. Fieldhouse (finding section 708.10, Florida Statutes (1977), constitutional, and

Fieldhouse v. Public Health Trust

374 So. 2d 476, 1979 Fla. LEXIS 4695

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Jun 14, 1979 | Docket: 64571664

Published

Florida, upholding the constitutionality of section 708.10, Florida Statutes (1977). We have jurisdiction