In Ohio, the husband must support his wife and minor children, but if unable his wife must assist him as far as she is able. Revised Statutes of 1890, § 3110. Neither has any interest in the other's property except as afterwards provided, but neither can be excluded from the other's dwelling, § 3111. They may contract with each other or any other person as if unmarried, subject between themselves to the general rules controlling persons occupying confidential relations with each other, § 3112. A married person may take hold and dispose of real and personal property as if unmarried, § 3114. Neither is answerable for the acts of the other, § 3115. If husband neglects to support wife, he is liable to any one who in good faith supplies her with necessaries, § 3116. But not if she abandons him without cause § 3117. In disposing of her real estate, a married woman executes and acknowledges a deed in the same manner as other persons, § 4107. A married woman shall sue and be sued as if unmarried, § 4996. Judgment may be enforced against her and her property as if unmarried; but she is entitled to the benefit of all exemptions to heads of families, § 5319. She may insure her husband's life for her benefit; and insurance on the life of any person may be transferred to her and inure to her separate use, and in case she die before due, to her children, or if no children, on her death revert to the party insured or his transferee. She may sell or assign such insurance with the concurrence of the party insured, § 3629. If husband or wife dies intestate, without children or their legal representatives or kindred, all her property belongs to the survivor, § 4158. Curtesy (but not dower) is abolished, § 4194-1. A married woman may make a will, § 5914.

In Oklahoma, the husband must support himself and his wife, but if unable from infirmity to do so, the wife must support him from her separate estate.

Stats. 1890, § 3106. A married woman may dispose of all her separate, estate by will without her husband's consent, § 6798. If a decedent dies intestate leaving husband or wife and no children, or only one child or the descendants of but one child, the surviving husband or wife takes half the estate. Otherwise one third, unless the decedent leaves no issue, father, mother, sister, brother, m which case the surviving husband or wife takes the whole, § 6893. A married woman may sue and be sued as if unmarried, § 4308. She may contract when over eighteen years of age, §§ 799, 800.

In Oregon, a married woman's property and pecuniary rights are not subject to the debts or contracts of her husband, and she may manage, sell, convey, or devise the same. Hill's Annotated Laws of 1892, §§ 2992, 2993. She is responsible for civil injuries committed by her, § 2996. She may contract, and her contracts are enforceable by or against her as if unmarried, § 2997. She may sue alone, § 2998. She may record with the county clerk a list of her personal property, which will be evidence of her title. Property not so recorded shall be deemed prima facie the property of the husband, §§ 2999-3001. She may make a will subject to her husband's right of curtesy, § 3068. If a man dies intestate without lineal descendants a surviving wife takes all his property. If he leave issue she takes an estate of dower in the real estate and half the personalty, §§ 3098, 3099. Acknowledgments of married women to conveyances of real property are taken as if they were unmarried, p. 1985. She may prosecute and defend alone actions in regard to her property or personal rights; otherwise her husband must be joined, §§ 30, 31.

In Pennsylvania, a married woman is under no disability as to the acquisition, ownership, use, control, or disposition of property, or the making of contracts of any kind. Provided that she may not mortgage or convey her real estate unless her husband join. Brightly's Purdon's Digest, Supplement 1885-1887, p. 2236, § 18. She may enter into and render herself liable upon contracts relating to any trade or business in which she may engage or for necessaries, and may sue and be sued upon contracts or for torts, as if she were a feme sole. And her husband need not be a party, § 19. Any debt, damages, and costs if recovered by her shall be her separate property, and if recovered against her shall be payable only out of her separate property, § 20. Nothing in this or the preceding section shall enable a married woman to become accommodation endorser, guarantor, or surety for another, § 21. She may lease her property, real or personal, and assign, transfer, or sell her separate personal property and notes, bills, drafts, bonds, or obligations of any sort, and appoint attorneys to act for her, § 22. Husband and wife have the same civil remedies upon contracts in their own name and right, against all persons for the protection and recovery of their separate property, as unmarried persons, § 23. A married woman may make a will as if unmarried, § 24.

In Rhode Island, a married woman's property before marriage, or becoming hers thereafter, or acquired by her own industry, and its income, remains her separate property, free of her husband's debts, Public Statutes of 1882, c. 166, § 1. The proceeds of its sale may be invested in her name with the same effect as if unsold. § 2. The husband's receipt for her income is sufficient, unless she has given notice otherwise, when her receipt alone is sufficient, as it is in all cases for the payment to her of her property, § 3. Acts of 1884, c. 399. She may, by joining her husband, convey by deed her real property, furniture, plate, jewels, shares of stock, savings deposits, and mortgage debts due her; and the husband cannot alone convey such property of hers, §§ 4, 5. She may sell, convey, and contract with reference to the rest of her property as if unmarried; but may not transact business as a trader, § 6. If of age; the husband and wife may convey her property by joint or separate deeds, which, to be effective, must be acknowledged by her on an examination apart from her husband, §§ 7-9. If of the age of twenty-one years, she may dispose of her real estate, and if of the age of eighteen years, of her personal property by will; but not to impair curtesy or her husband's right to administer without accounting upon her uudisposed-of personal estate, §§ 13, 14. Her property is liable for her antenuptial debts and upon her authorized contracts, as if she were unmarried, § 15. Upon authorized contracts, she can sue and be sued alone; in all other matters, if without a trustee, the husband must be joined, § 16. Judgments recovered upon such suits become her property, § 17. She may have a trustee appointed over her property, § 18. The rights of husbands accruing before the digest of 1844 went into operation remain the same, § 20. Life insurance up to $10,000 on any life for her benefit inures to her separate use, may be sued for by her, and she may have a trustee appointed to hold the proceeds, §§ 21, 22. If she is of age, and is deserted, or not provided for by him (if able) for six months, she may, by leave of court, sell and convey her property, have her minor children's earnings, and sue and be sued as if unmarried, § 23. She may control, transfer, and withdraw her deposits in savings banks and the interest thereon, c 153, § 58. If she die intestate without issue or kindred, her property goes to her husband, c. 187, § 4.