It has been a common practice for some decades for people in the process of legal separation to put, "Not responsible for any debts but my own" ads in local newspapers. I don't know what the exact legal power of these ads are, but here's an amusing variant from the nineteenth century. From the May 12, 1837 North Alabamian, p. 1:
Honest Caution.--The following advertisement appeared in a Savannah Journal:
All persons are not only warned, but absolutely forbid, to give me credit on any pretence whatsoever; as from this day forward I shall not pay any debts contracted by myself--so help me God. JOHN HEWIT.
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