Background: My BIL passed away on New Year's day from an accidental overdose. He was addicted to pain medication, something he used to manage pain from a TBI he received as a veteran. He was also buying drugs with the cash advances from the credit cards he opened up in my sister's name. He was a full blown addict, not able to think clearly except for up his doses, from what we are discovering. Though he was not always like this, it has hurt to discover this knowledge.
All personal shit aside, it seems that my sister has resigned herself to thinking that because the credit cards are in her name, with her signature apparently forged onto the paperwork, and that she had knowledge of the cards (which she took from him and froze so that they could slowly pay off ) that she is fully responsible the mounting debt he built up while living.
My question: Is there anything she might be able to do to alleviate that debt which he accrued while living? The cards were fraudulently opened up in her name, but then she found out and took them from him and just tried to get them paid down. Any rules with credit card companies that might apply to this situation?
Submitted February 02, 2017 at 11:48AM by oldmankyle http://ift.tt/2kWkFrN
