39-11. Certain conveyances not affected by fraud if acknowledgment or privy examination regular. No deed conveying lands nor any instrument required or allowed by law to be registered, executed by husband and wife since the eleventh of March, 1889, if the acknowledgment or private examination of the wife is thereto certified as prescribed by law, […]
39-12. Power of attorney of married person. Every competent married person of lawful age is authorized to execute, without the joinder of his or her spouse, instruments creating powers of attorney affecting the real and personal property of such married person naming either third parties or, subject to the provisions of G.S. 52-10 or 52-10.1, […]
39-13. Spouse need not join in purchase-money mortgage. A mortgage or deed of trust given by the purchaser of real property to secure a loan, the proceeds of which were used to pay all or a portion of the purchase price of the encumbered real property, regardless of whether the secured party is the seller […]
39-13.1. Validation of certain deeds, etc., executed by married women without private examination. (a) No deed, contract, conveyance, leasehold or other instrument executed since the seventh day of November, 1944, shall be declared invalid because of the failure to take the private examination of any married woman who was a party to such deed, contract, […]
39-13.2. Married persons under 18 made competent as to certain transactions; certain transactions validated. (a) Any married person under 18 years of age is authorized and empowered and shall have the same privileges as are conferred upon married persons 18 years of age or older to: (1) Waive, release or renounce by deed or other […]
39-13.3. Conveyances between husband and wife. (a) A conveyance from a husband or wife to the other spouse of real property or any interest therein owned by the grantor alone vests such property or interest in the grantee. (b) Recodified as G.S. 41-56(b) by Session Laws 2020-50, s. 1(b), effective June 30, 2020. (c) Recodified […]
39-13.4. Conveyances by husband or wife under deed of separation. Any conveyance of real property, or any interest therein, by the husband or wife who have previously executed a valid and lawful deed of separation which authorizes said husband or wife to convey real property or any interest therein without the consent and joinder of […]
39-13.5: Recodified as G.S. 41-56(c) by Session Laws 2020-50, s. 1(b), effective June 30, 2020.
39-13.6. Control of real property held in tenancy by the entirety. (a) Recodified as G.S. 41-58 by Session Laws 2020-50, s. 1(b), effective June 30, 2020. (b) Recodified as G.S. 41-56(a) by Session Laws 2020-50, s. 1(b), effective June 30, 2020. (c) Recodified as G.S. 41-59(b) by Session Laws 2020-50, s. 1(b), effective June 30, […]
39-13.7: Recodified as G.S. 41-65 by Session Laws 2020-50, s. 1(b), effective June 30, 2020.
39-7. Instruments affecting married person’s title; joinder of spouse; exceptions. (a) In order to waive the elective life estate of either husband or wife as provided for in G.S. 29-30, every conveyance or other instrument affecting the estate, right or title of any married person in lands, tenements or hereditaments must be executed by such […]
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 […]
39-8. Acknowledgment at different times and places; before different officers; order immaterial. In all cases of deeds, or other instruments executed by husband and wife and requiring registration, the probate of such instruments as to the husband and due proof or acknowledgment of the wife may be taken before different officers authorized by law to […]
39-9. Absence of wife’s acknowledgment does not affect deed as to husband. When an instrument purports to be signed by a husband and wife the instrument may be ordered registered, if the acknowledgment of the husband is duly taken, but no such instrument shall be the act or deed of the wife unless proven or […]
