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Who pays for debts during marriage?

The divorce, as it may have seemed when you and your partner decided to go for it, is certainly not an easy task to accomplish. It comes with whole lot of complications and lot of time and energy consumption. It’s the time when you part away from and separate things at every micro and macro level of your life which include your house, luxury, work, money, assets, and even kids. No divorce ends without grudges for the other. According to trusted data’s, not even 5% to 10% divorces are done fairly considering both the parties. At the end of the day, it is the one who has better claim to things ends up with more from a broken marriage in terms of assets, money or may be children custody.

It is not a cake walk to get your divorce done on paper and in reality. Both need time, money, patience and tremendous management skills. Even after taking care, the marital settlement agreement may still be unacceptable to one or both the partners. For instance the one who pays for debts during marriage or post divorce? This question is one of the crucial and controversial divorce issues and differs from person to person.

During the marriage, the husband as well as the wife pays the debt as a couple. Both are liable to be defaulters and the history of both is taken into account for any bad credit prior to any passing of loans. It is after a marriage ends that these payments of loans or debt become a problem.

1. In case of debt, it is advisable to make a separate file altogether which must have all the documents regarding the loan such as how much the debt is, whose name is it on, etc.
2. If the debt is only taken in the name of one person, he is completely liable for his own repayments. This, if not settled among the couples on mutual agreement, can be fought out in a trial in a court of law.
3. It is however always highly advisable for the married couple to make a mutually agreed upon list of things which they are going to share. This list can be made prior to filing application in the court and must contain the financial settlements such as the dividing up of the loans and debts. Making such a list can save a lot of precious time from getting wasted in a court trial. It also removes any element of surprise, as it will be in case of a court’s judgment.
4. If the spouse who has the debt on his name is unable to pay back due to inadequate finances, then the other person can take the responsibility to make the payments on behalf of the spouse in exchange of another favorable deal.

Debts should be managed with utmost care and in presence of a qualified financial analyst and a legal attorney to avoid any kind of technical problems later.

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