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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 52-1 (2026)
Property of married persons secured
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The real and personal property of any married person in this State, acquired before marriage or to which he or she may after marriage become in any manner entitled, shall be and remain the sole and separate estate and property of such married person and may be devised and conveyed by such married person subject to G.S. 50-20 and such other regulations and limitations as the General Assembly may prescribe. (Const., Art. X, s. 6; Rev., s. 2093; C.S., s. 2506; 1965, c. 878, s. 1; 1981, c. 815, s. 3; 2011-284, s. 52.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 8
cases, 1949–1997 · leading case: State v. Cauley, 94 S.E.2d 915 (N.C. 1956).
State v. Cauley, 94 S.E.2d 915 (N.C. 1956). “Some courts have taken the view that, under Married Women's Acts, G.S. § 52-1 et seq. completely removing the disabilities of coverture and emancipating married women, this common law presumption no longer exists.”
Bowling v. Bowling, 114 S.E.2d 228 (N.C. 1960). “G.S. 52-1. In Etheredge v. Cochran, 196 N.”
Melvin v. Mills-Melvin, 486 S.E.2d 84 (N.C. Ct. App. 1997). “Evan’s motion to dismiss and denied plaintiff’s motion for continuance. The issue is whether Ms. Mills-Melvin’s conveyance of her property without the signature of her husband (the plaintiff) was a valid transfer of property.”
Shores v. Rabon, 112 S.E.2d 556 (N.C. 1960). “G.S. 52-1. We conclude that the interest of Mary Lee Shores was not insured under the mortgage clause.”
Scholtens v. Scholtens, 52 S.E.2d 350 (N.C. 1949). “454 was deleted in the adoption of the General Statutes as being superseded by G.S. 52-1, et seq., *152 that is Chapter 52 entitled Married Women.”
Vettori v. Fay, 137 S.E.2d 810 (N.C. 1964). “X, § 6; G.S. 52-1. The judgment below is Affirmed.”
Dudley v. Staton, 126 S.E.2d 590 (N.C. 1962). “*574 The power conferred by Article X, section 6, of the 1868 Constitution upon married women in this State to devise and bequeath their real and personal property as if they were unmarried is confirmed by statute, G.S. 52-1, in the same words as set forth in the constitutional…”
Heller v. Heller, 171 S.E.2d 335 (N.C. Ct. App. 1969). “” G.S. 52-1. Subject to such regulations and limitations, “every married person is authorized to contract and deal so as to affect his or her real and personal property in the same manner and with the same effect as if he or she were unmarried.”
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