NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 857

HOUSE BILL 328

 

 

AN ACT TO VALIDATE CERTAIN INSTRUMENTS AFFECTING MARRIED WOMEN'S TITLES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  The General Statutes are hereby amended by inserting immediately after Section 39-7 a new Section to be numbered G.S. 39-7.1 and to read as follows:

"G.S. 39-7.1.  Instruments Affecting Married Woman's Title 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 after February 6, 1964 and before the effective date of this Act, shall be invalid for the reason that the instrument was not also executed by the husband of such married woman."

Sec. 1.5.  This Act shall not apply to pending litigation.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1965.