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Fairly certain at least some of those debts can get passed on to your estate and/or children.
by tonysdg 8y ago
Fairly certain at least some of those debts can get passed on to your estate and/or children.
- kortilla 8y agoYour estate is just your assets, so yes to that. Your children, not in the US. You can never involuntarily inherit debt in the US. You have to be a co-signer to begin with.
- skh 8y agoIn some states for certain medical expenses family members can be forced to assume the debt.
- kgwgk 8y agoInteresting. But strictly speaking you’re not inheriting debt. You were liable for the debt all the time.
- skh 8y agoI would agree with that assessment but for the fact that while alive the parent's medical debt can't be forced upon family members. It's a weird debt and I agree it isn't quite the same as inheriting it but I also think it isn't the same a jointly assumed liability while the parent is alive. The family members presumably have no say in whether or not the parent assumes the medical debt.