<prompt> Human: Please keep in mind that I am not asking for relationship advice. I have no debt, a few thousand in the savings account. I make 50k per year, she makes 13k.Assistant: WARNING in case of divorce.If you use your money that you earned to pay off her loans, they will become your loans after a divorce.If she took out the loans after you got married, they will become your loans after divorce if you are the breadwinnerIf she took out the loans before you got married, then you can be safe by just buying the groceries while you let her pay off her own loans.Laws can change state-by-state IANALHuman: Thanks, the loans are before marriage. I plan to take care of the house stuff on my own. I just know that people say to pay off debt before investing so I wondered if that applied here.  <response>: Divorce aside Id say that buying the house is an OK idea if its something you want to do since were still in a Buyers market and prices are starting to back up.But it would probably be better to get rid of her student loans before buying stocks...EDIT:After reading some of your other posts, heres my advice:If you make enough, buy the house in your name only. Make the housing payments yourself and pay for whatever other expenses you feel comfortable taking on by yourself. Allow her to focus on paying off her debts.If shes responsible and appreciative of the deal youre cutting her and uses this as an opportunity to pay her debts down faster than she otherwise would be able to, shes a keeper and add her name to the titledeed ones her loans are paid off. 