Medical and hospital bills

[flaman]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Florida
If I'm unable to pay hospital bills, can they go after my wife's money in her bank account, which is not under my name?

 

[quincy]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Florida
If I'm unable to pay hospital bills, can they go after my wife's money in her bank account, which is not under my name?

No. Not unless your wife signed hospital forms obligating her to pay.

Here is a link to debtor rights in Florida, from the Florida Bar: https://www.floridabar.org/public/consumer/tip006/

 

[Autorizerm]

Almost any and all debt that pertain to you will be yours to account for unless you're dead. Then it may pass to your family in certain situations.

 

[quincy]

Almost any and all debt that pertain to you will be yours to account for unless you're dead. Then it may pass to your family in certain situations.

Really? ...

 

[Just Blue]

Almost any and all debt that pertain to you will be yours to account for unless you're dead. Then it may pass to your family in certain situations.

Name one situation. In any state.

 

[quincy]

Name one situation. In any state.

What is really unfortunate about Autoizerm's post is that there was a link to the Florida laws that he could have read.

 

[latigo]

Almost any and all debt that pertain to you will be yours to account for unless you're dead. Then it may pass to your family in certain situations.

Would you care to further entertain us with your mental skills by describing a "situation" in which a debt owed at the time of a person's demise might "pass" to the deceased's "family" solely because of kindred?

Any particular surviving family member to whom the burden shifts? Or do they all share the debts of the deceased proportionately? How about the minors in the family and the sick and enfeebled, them too? Or were we just browsing for anything "free"; landed here and are now talking out of the back of our heads?