Originally Posted by quilterj
When your only parent is hospitalized and passes on and they have life insurance. Can the bills be wrote off or are you to pay them off with the insurance money? I mean I know that you can or should pay them. But if someone is the only benificiary are they obligated to be pay if the bills are in your parents name?
It's been a while, and I don't know if laws have changed, but when Mom passed in 1995 in Illinois the estate was responsible for any debts. The inheritance we received was after all debts were paid.