In Colorado, all of a married woman's property at the marriage, with its profits, and all received afterwards by descent, devise, or bequest, or by gift of any person except her husband, including however, ornaments, money, and apparel from him, is her separate property, free from his debts or disposal, Mills' Annotated Statutes, 1891, § 3007. She may dispose of personal estate as if unmarried, § 3008. She may sue or be sued alone touching her person, property, or reputation, § 3009. She may dispose by will of one half of her property only away from her husband, unless he consents in writing, § 3010. She may trade or labor on her sole account, and her earnings and profits are her own to use or invest; she may sue or be sued touching the same, and the same are liable to execution, § 3012. Marriage contracts are valid, § 3013. The husband is liable for her antenuptial debts only to the extent of property, or its proceeds, derived from her, her death not freeing him from such liability, §§ 3014, 3015. When a woman, in debt and owning land, marries, a joint judgment for the same against husband and wife is to be levied on such land alone, § 3016. The husband's sole deed can convey no part of the wife's land, § 3017. She may give any written instrument to pay money, and if for her estate's benefit, she may be sued thereon, the judgment be a lien on her land, which may be levied on therefor, § 3018. She may sell and convey her property, sue and be sued, and contract in every way on her sole liability, as if unmarried, §§ 3019-3021. She may be a special partner with her husband or another, and may so contract as if unmarried, and in relation to partnership matters may be a witness for or against the husband, § 3382. Her husband must join or be joined in suits, unless relating to her separate estate or between themselves, Code of Civil Procedure of 1877, § 6. If sued together she may defend herself, § 7.

In Connecticut, a married woman's real estate, the result of her labor, and the proceeds of its sale, if invested in her name or that of her trustee, is her separate property; and she may convey it, as if unmarried, by leave of court, if abandoned for three years by her husband, Gen. Sts. of Conn, of 1888, § 2790. A married woman, so long as a conservator is over her husband, may exercise every right touching her estate as if unmarried, § 2791. All the before and after acquired personal property of a woman, married since June 22, 1849, and before April 20, 1877, and the proceeds of its sale, are held in trust by the husband to enjoy the income subject to her and the minor children's support, to apply such part of the principal as may be necessary for her support, or otherwise with her written consent; on his death the rest to be transferred to her, if living, otherwise to her legatees or representatives. A portion of such trust property, equivalent to any of her antenuptial debts paid by him, is to vest in him absolutely, § 2792. The husband cannot sell her property, unless she, if living, or her representatives or the guardians of the minor children, consent in writing, and all reinvestments must be in his name as trustee, § 2793. If abandoned her property vests in her; and she may, during the abandonment, sue and be sued, and do business as if unmarried, § 2794. She may insure her husband for the benefit of herself and children, up to $300 premium, § 2799. Payment to her of money lent or deposited by her or for personal services, is as valid as if she were unmarried, § 3000. She may be sued as if unmarried upon any antenuptial cause of action, and upon any postnuptial contract made on her personal credit for the benefit of herself, her family, or her estate, and for any tort, unless coerced by the husband, and her property attached and levied upon, § 984; and in like manner, on a joint contract with the husband for the benefit of her or the joint estate, § 9S5. Likewise she may sue, if doing business, upon any right accruing therefrom, § 986. In a civil action by or against her, the husband may be joined, but judgment is to be entered ouly in favor of or against the one for or against whom a cause of action is found, and costs taxed for or against that one only, § 987. In all marriages contracted after April 20, 1877, neither husband nor wife acquires any rights in any before or after acquired property of the other except as survivor. She has her earnings, may contract with third persons, and convey her property, real and personal, as if unmarried, Her property is liable tor her debts, but not for the husband's, § 2796. All purchases of either husband or wife are presumed, in the absence of notice, to be on Ins or her private account; but both are liable if for the family support, the joint benefit, her reasonable apparel, or support while abandoned by him. She shall be indemnified by him for what she may have expended for the family support if he has property, § -797. If married before April 20, 1S77, any husband and wife may agree in writing to abandon all existing and mutual rights in each other's property, and when recorded, this act shall apply to such marriage as well, § 2798.

In Dakota, a husband must support his wife, but she must support her husband out of her separate estate, when he has none, has not deserted her, and is too infirm to support himself, Compiled Laws of 1887, § 2588. She may contract with her husband or a third person, as if unmarried, subject in transactions with her husband to the rules of trusts, § 2590. She may hold property with her husband, jointly or in common, may convey her property without his consent, and may record an inventory of the same duly acknowledged, § 2593. She is not answerable for his acts, and has no dower. Her earnings and other accumulations and her minor children's earnings, while apart from her husband, are her separate property, which is alone liable for her debts, contracted before or after marriage. There is no curtesy or dower, § 2594. He is liable for necessaries, if he neglects her, unless she abandons him, but on an agreement of separation she is liable for her support, unless expressly stipulated, §§ 2594, 2595. A woman has the same legal rights after marriage as before and the same as her husband except the right to vote or hold office, § 2600.