Married Women's Property Act - Implications on Life Insurance Policies
The Married Women's Property (MWP) Act was enacted with a view to protect the properties of women against the creditors. Under MWP Act all the properties that belong to the women gets insulated and protected from all the other court attachments or any income tax department attachments that the husband has run up. Let's take an example of a business family; the family could be a trader or a manufacturer or any other business. In due course of business there are some credit limits or there are bank loans, which have been taken by the business. The bank secures these credit limits against the assets of the business and also takes a personal guarantee of the owner of the business which could be the husband or the family. In case of the untimely death of the husband the bank starts recovering their loans and in the process they liquidate the assets of the business and also they attach the properties that belong to the guarantor, which in this case is the husband. In order to p...