Utah Code § 81-3-104
Married individual's right to wages -- Actions for personal injury
Utah · Utah Code Title 81 — Utah Domestic Relations Code · Status: effective
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- Utah Code § 81-3-104, Married individual's right to wages -- Actions for personal injury, Utah, version 1 as recorded 2026-10-03, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/2356897
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(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.