Section 93-3-13 – Liability of husband for property or income of wife

May 13, 2021 | Family Law, Mississippi

If the husband receive and appropriate to his own use the property of his wife, or the income and profit of her property, he shall be debtor to his wife therefor; but neither he nor his representatives shall be accountable to his wife for the income or profits of her estate, after the expiration of one year from the receipt of such income or profits. If the husband be permitted by the wife to employ the income or profits of her estate, or to use her estate in the support and maintenance of the family, he shall not be chargeable therewith nor be liable to account therefor.

Miss. Code § 93-3-13

Codes, 1880, § 1176; 1892, § 2292; 1906, § 2520; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2054; 1930, § 1945; 1942, § 456.