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2025 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS
Chapter 41 - General Provisions
Section 4101 - Liability for debts contracted before marriage
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23 PA Cons Stat § 4101 (2025)
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§ 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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