Louisiana's civil law concept of community property.  There is a presumption that if the acquiring party is married, when a property is acquired during the marriage, that the property is community, and therefore both spouses would be required to sign any transfer or encumbrance of the property.  Community property laws do allow a spouse to own property as their separate property, however there must be a declaration in the act of acquisition that the property is being purchase with separate funds (not community funds) for the separate use and control of the acquiring spouse, and until just recently, the non-acquiring spouse had to concur in that declaration.  Now, since a recent change in the statute probably pushed by the same good folks behind the change in Ohio, it is enough that the acquiring spouse make that declaration in the act of acquisition, if the declaration is false, the non-titled spouse is able to sue for her portion of the proceeds, which we know could be an empty well if they made it to the casino, dope dealer or whatever first.

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