§ 81-3-104. Married individual's right to wages -- Actions for personal injury.

(1) A married individual may: (a) receive the wages for the individual's personal labor as if unmarried; (b) maintain an action in the individual's own name and hold the same in the individual's own right as if unmarried; and (c) prosecute and defend all actions for the preservation and protection of the individual's rights and property as if unmarried. (2) A husband does not have a right of recovery: (a) on account of personal injury or wrong to the husband's wife; or (b) for expenses connected with the personal injury or wrong to the husband's wife. (3) (a) A wife may recover against a third person for a personal injury or wrong to the wife as if unmarried. (b) A recovery shall include expenses of medical treatment and other expenses paid or assumed by the husband.