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Am I legally responsible for my deceased son's medical bills I live in the State of Virginia there is no estate and I am not the guarentor on any paperwork?
No, you are not responsible for the bills. His estate is responsible, whether there are assets or not. If there are no assets, they creditors do not get paid.
Am I required to pay my deceased father's bills?
You do not have to do it out of your pocket. If you are the executor of the estate, yes, insomuch as there are assets to pay them with. If the debts exceed the assets, there are some people who will not get paid, including the beneficiaries.
What do you do if there is no estate of the deceased spouse and are getting medical bills in spouse name only?
Open an estate so they can be resolved. If the estate has no assets, they won't get paid.
Are adult children responsible for credit card and medical bills with an estate?
They are not responsible to do it with their own money. If you are the executor of the estate, yes, insomuch as there are assets to pay them with. If the debts exceed the assets, there are some people who will not get paid, including the beneficiaries.
Are adult children responsible for paying deceasded parents medical bills in Michigan?
The children are not directly responsible. If you are the executor of the estate, yes, insomuch as there are assets to pay them with. If the debts exceed the assets, there are some people who will not get paid, including the beneficiaries.
Are you responsible for deceased mothers bills?
If your mother died without any assets but died flat broke, you are not responsible for her bills. You do not have to pay her bills out of your own money. (You have to pay any expenses you arrange for after she dies. If you buy a funeral you have to make sure it is paid for.) However, if your mother left you money and you are the executor of her estate, you must pay her bills.
Your father is deceased with a small estate in North Carolina and a lot of debt does the child have to pay for it?
The estate is liquidated, assets sold and as many of the bills paid as possible. If there isn't enough, the creditors don't get paid. It is not the children's responsibility to cover the debt.
Are children responsible for parents medical bills?
No, but bear in mind that the costs will come out of the parents' estate first. So if a single parent died with assets worth $12,000US, the medical bills will be paid after the necessary amount of assets have been liquidated. The child will then inherit the rest. If the medical bills are higher than the deceased's estate, then all of it will be taken, but the rest of the debt will be written off. Note also that many countries have laws that consider it an attempt at fraud, for a terminally ill patient to sign all their assets over to someone else before death, to avoid the patient's debts being paid out of their estate, post-mortem.
What to do if workman's comp settlement will not cover medical bills and they were paid by medicare?
Nothing the bills were paid by Medicare.
After death who pays bills when both spouses are gone?
The estate is responsible for paying the debts of a decedent. The estate must be probated and the debts must be paid before any assets are distributed to the heirs.
Does the estate of a decedent have to pay all outstanding debt such as medical bills utilities and insurance?
The estate is responsible for the debts of the decedent. The debts must be paid before any assets can be distributed to the heirs.
How do you protect yourself from debt that is supposed to be paid by your ex in the divorce decree?
This is sort of an odd question to be asking on this venue, and is close to bordering on the solicitation of legal advice. The best thing I can recommend is that you contact the attorney who handled your divorce (hopefully you had one) and seek their advice on this matter. This is what you paid them the big bucks for. If the divorce settlement was structured well it should have divided all the marital assets as well as apportioning all the debt as to who is specifically responsible for what.
