Medical care, and some other necessaries, on the theory that a married person should not be able to receive essential treatment and leave a provider with nobody to look to.

There are two limits in it and both of them are the entire ballgame.

The first is that the liability is secondary. It applies to the extent that the person who received the care does not have the resources to pay.

It is not a transfer; it is a backstop.

And the second is the one that saved me, and I found it on a Saturday afternoon on the internet in my dressing gown, and I had to read it four times to believe it.

The liability attaches to services furnished during the marriage.