Dear Debt Adviser: My fiancee has delinquent credit card debt that she cannot pay and has not paid for years. The debt is due to her previous marriage and spouse, but it’s in her name. If we get married, can the credit card companies come after me, my credit or bank accounts? I have good credit, and am current on all of my bills. Thanks. -- William

Q: Dear Debt Adviser,

John Blundell, the English writer and biographer of Margaret Thatcher, was asked what advice the Iron Lady would have had for today’s presidential candidates. She would have been concerned with mounting debt, he said, but her first priority would have been to avoid, at all costs, a government takeover of health care. She knew that once you have a government-run system, you can never get rid of it, no matter how ruinous it is.

John Blundell, the English writer and biographer of Margaret Thatcher, was asked what advice the Iron Lady would have had for today’s presidential candidates. She would have been concerned with mounting debt, he said, but her first priority would have been to avoid, at all costs, a government takeover of health care. She knew that once you have a government-run system, you can never get rid of it, no matter how ruinous it is.

Steve Bucci is the author of “Credit Management Kit for Dummies.” Email debtadviser@bankrate.com.

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