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Can credit card debt transfer to your children after your death?

Posted by on September 1, 2010 3 comments
extisc asked:


An older family member of mine has a large amount of credit card debt and their only major asset is the house that they currently live in. From what I’ve read it seems that creditors will liquidate all of their assets including the house in order to try and cover the debt upon their death.

One of their children wants to purchase the house or assume the mortgage from them now and become the new owner. If the house is sold/transferred in this manner and no longer belongs to my older family member with the large debt, will creditors try to come after her child upon her death?

The house is located in Florida.

Lisa

Should my fiancee and I pay off our credit card debt before we purchase a new home?

Posted by on September 15, 2009 7 comments
Francesca L asked:


My fiancee and I have approximately $30,000 in credit card debt (mostly his). He thinks that we should pay off all that debt and put a smaller down payment down on a home, rather than using all our money for the down payment. I argued that we should not worry TOO much about the credit card debt and take care of it another way, such as re-financing our mortgage in several years and using that cash to pay off the credit card debt (since the interest rate would be much lower). Any suggestions?

Brenton