That is--of course you are recorded at the city clerk's office ?" "Why no.

Why should I be ?" "The law requires it.

Otherwise this property, and even the money your boarders pay you, are liable to attachment for your husband's debts.
Unless you make a specific declaration that you are in business for yourself, the law assumes that the business is your husband's." "If I went to work for a salary, should I have to be recorded in order to keep my own money ?" Mrs.McEwan was growing angry.
"No," replied the lawyer, "not if you were careful to keep your income and your husband's absolutely separate.

If you both paid installments on a piano the piano would be your husband's, not yours.

If you bought a house together, the house could be seized for his debts.