Indian Divorce Act, 1869
24. Separated wife deemed spinster with respect to after-
acquired property
In every case of a judicial separation under this Act, the wife
shall, from the date of the sentence, and whilst the separation continues, be
considered as unmarried with respect to property of every description which she
may acquire, or which may come to or devolve upon her.
Such property may be disposed of by her in all respects as an
unmarried woman, and on her decease the same shall, in a case she dies
intestate, go as the same would have gone if her husband had been then dead:
PROVIDED that, if any such wife again cohabits with her
husband, all such property as she may be entitled to when such cohabitation
takes place shall be held to her separate use, subject, however, to any
agreement in writing made between herself and her husband whilst separate.