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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mom bought something on credit..no interest for the first 6months deal.  There is some confusion relating to the bill which came from a different company.  Interest and fees were added before they figured it out.  Mom dies.  Is Dad responsible for the bill?  His name is not on it.  They have joint assets that all became his.  He is not really trying to just not pay but the fees and interest are super high (and the item is useless now)[/quote]

Similar situation happened to a relative where H died. Family's medical insurance was through the husband and H&W both had credit cards on their own names as well as joint. Financial assets north of $3M, paid off house, 2 cars, etc. Cars and some of the financial assets were in H's name. Bills that came in after death included a hospital bill including ER for DC1 (Insurance was in H's name), Hospital bill for H's short stay at diff hospital before death (which W paid), and credit cards in H's name.  No Will or Trust.

They didn't even go through probate. Used the death cert to transfer assets over to W's name (car, the couple of accounts that were only in H's name, etc.) before addressing debtors. Wrote each of them a letter after about 3 months to let them know of death and requested write-off. All of them either did or stopped calling. If i recall, one of them may have passed it on to collections but W just told them what happened and they stopped calling as well. 
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