{"id":1608,"date":"2013-11-22T10:46:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T15:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2013-11-22T10:46:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T15:46:13","slug":"paying-your-spouses-medical-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=1608","title":{"rendered":"Paying Your Spouse&#8217;s Medical Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/medical-bill-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1610\" alt=\"medical bill 2\" src=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/medical-bill-2.jpg\" width=\"174\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Southern District has ruled that in order for a spouse to be responsible for the bills of the other spouse, the company or person seeking to recover the money or damages must show that the bill was necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Often times hospitals will attempt to collect one spouse&#8217;s medical bills from the other spouse.\u00a0 In order to do so, the hospital must prove all of the elements of the doctrine of necessaries.\u00a0 The doctrine of necessaries states that a spouse is liable for the other spouse&#8217;s necessary expenses, but not for the expenses or bills that were not shown to be necessary or that were not necessary.<\/p>\n<p>To read the case in its entirety, check out:<br \/>\nSaint Francis Medical Center, Plaintiff-Respondent, vs. Britney Watkins, f\/k\/a Britney Carner, and Tyler Watkins, Defendant-Appellants.<br \/>\nMissouri Court of Appeals, Southern District &#8211; SD32313<\/p>\n<p>Visit our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Hoorfarlaw.com\">www.Hoorfarlaw.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Southern District has ruled that in order for a spouse to be responsible for the bills of the other spouse, the company or person seeking to recover the money or damages must show &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=1608\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[229,348,383,366,379],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-hoorfar-law","tag-law-office-of-camron-hoorfar","tag-medical-bills","tag-missouri-court-of-appeals","tag-southern-district-of-missouri"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}