NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 853

SENATE BILL 405

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 39-7.1 TO PROVIDE THAT NO CONVEYANCE BY A MARRIED WOMAN PRIOR TO JUNE 8, 1965, SHALL BE INVALID FOR THE REASON THAT THE INSTRUMENT WAS NOT ALSO EXECUTED BY HER HUSBAND.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 39-7.1 is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 39-7.1.  Certain instruments affecting married woman's title not executed by husband validated. — No conveyance, power of attorney, or other instrument affecting the estate, right or title of any married woman in lands, tenements or hereditaments which was executed by such married woman prior to June 8, 1965, shall be invalid for the reason that the instrument was not also executed by the husband of such married woman."

Sec. 2.  This act shall not apply to pending litigation.

Sec. 3.  This act shall be effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of February, 1974.