Liability for debts contracted before marriage.

23 Pa.C.S. § 4101
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(a) General rule.--A spouse is not liable for the debts of the other spouse contracted before marriage. (b) Liability of property unaffected.--This chapter does not protect the property of a married person from liability for debts contracted by or in the name of the married person by any person authorized to so contract.
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