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If husband commits a crime is the wife responsible for restitution charges?

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No, not unless it can be proven that the wife was an accomplice or complicit in the crime. HOWEVER: depending on the state, the innocent wife may have to deal with efforts to collect damages by the husbands victim(s) if they can get court orders placing liens on the husbands assets.

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