New Mexico Statutes
§ 40-2-2 — [Contract rights of married persons.]
New Mexico § 40-2-2
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Bluebook
N.M. Stat. Ann. § 40-2-2 (2026).
Text
Either husband or wife may enter into any engagement or transaction with the other, or with any other person respecting property, which either might, if unmarried; subject, in transactions between themselves, to the general rules of common law which control the actions of persons occupying confidential relations with each other.
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Legislative History
Laws 1907, ch. 37, § 4; Code 1915, § 2750; C.S. 1929, § 68-201; 1941 Comp.,
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Bluebook (online)
New Mexico § 40-2-2, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/nm/40/40-2-2.