14 ms·I paid off my wife’s student loans – then she filed for divorce after two years8 points by maxshmax 8y agomehly 8y agoouchmodbait 8y agoBeen there. Unless you have an IOU, anything "given" before marriage is utterly gone, and you won't get any credit for it during the division of assets or determination of alimony. No good deed goes unpunished.