Your local police department
A good place to start would be to contact the credit reporting agencies and request a copy of the deceased's credit report to notify the creditors.
Unless you work for an attorney or someone who can legally pull other's reports, it is illegal and not easy to pull another persons credit report. You can't legally do so.
Yes, it does show up on that persons credit report. If you are late on payments, it will negatively impact his/her credit report.
You should call the credit card company.
No. Credit reporting bureaus will not allow access to the report without an order from the probate court. Such an order is usually only granted to the named or appointed executor or executrix of the deceased's estate.
Yes, if the association won the judgement.
To determine if that person should be given a loan or credit card
Get a credit report on him. Try https://www.annualcreditreport.com/ or www.equifax.com/ and a list of his credit cards should pop up.
If it does report it will show that you are just an authorized user, most cards don't even report authorized users anymore.
Reportedly, buying trade lines is illegal. A trade line is something that will make a credit report look better. According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, this is illegal.
A consumer credit report consists of a persons personal information as well as their credit history and score which can be used by financial institutions and sometimes employers as well.
No, it is illegal, and if you are a victim of this, you can have it removed from your credit report by disputing it with the bureaus. After the statute of limitations is up on any trade line, it can not be placed back on your credit report.