2016 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS
Chapter 41 - General Provisions
Section 4101 - Liability for debts contracted before marriage

23 PA Cons Stat § 4101 (2016) What's This?
§ 4101. Liability for debts contracted before marriage.

(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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