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?
If YOU were the owner of the insurance policy, I would think not. If they owned it and you benefit from it, or if there was anything else at all in their estate to cover their bills then the bills should be paid. IMHO, consider talking with an estate attorney