does she own a home? does she have any assets? when a person dies then their estate needs to be probated by the court. You'd contact an attorney and show them how much she owes, present them with her will, and the trustee will sell the assets to pay her debts. If there was no will then the court would probably appoint you (a member of the family) to sell the assets and will do an order on that. If she had no assets then at least you would have contacted the attorney, taken the required steps, and then can present the death certificate to the places where she owed bills.
That depends on whether you received an inheritance. As these debts were incurred by her then her estate owes the payment.
Only that which is left over is available for distribution.
If she died "bankrupt" with no assets then you should not have to pay them.
My father died with so few assets that nothing was probated. I never received a bill but there was an outstanding hospital bill which I found out years later had been sent to collections. Nothing has happened. Now if she had a house or anything like that then you will have to pay the bills as they have a legal right to be paid since she had assets.
They will try if there is not enough in her estate to cover debt, but just say "it's not my debt" and they will give up, because they cannot enforce someone else's debt onto you.
You are not personally responsible for another person's debt unless you co-signed for it. However, in the case of a deceased person, you cannot receive one penny in inheritance from the deceased's estate until all of their debts have been paid. You can receive assets that are passed directly to you as a beneficiary, such as life insurance, IRAs, 401k plans and other similar accounts that have a beneficiary. Creditors cannot touch these funds.
Those bills are paid from her estate before any heirs get their share of the estate. If you are a co-owner, co-borrower or co-signer of the account, then yes, those debts become your debts unless there is enough money in her estate to pay them off. Life insurance is not part of her estate unless the estate itself is named the beneficiary. You should get some legal help.
If you are going to get inheritance from the property / assets of your mother, you are morally responsible to clear her debts also
Did you ever sign any thing with your mother, as a co-debtor? Then yes. If not, you would pay her bills out of her estate and not use your money.
This is what Probate Court is for. All your mother's assets must be accounted for & all her bills paid, then if anything is left, it goes to her heirs stipulated in her will. Contact her attorney to have her will admitted to Probate Court.
not unless ou signed for them. But if she left an estate, those get paid before you get anything
