APAD: Death pays all debts

Death pays all debts:  Death absolves one from any financial or moral obligation they may have had in life. It implies that when a person dies, all their debts are considered paid, and they are no longer accountable for them.

When someone dies, their debts are generally paid out of the money or property left in the estate. If the estate can’t pay it and there’s no one who shared responsibility for the debt, it may go unpaid. For survivors of deceased loved ones, including spouses,  there is no responsibility for their debts unless there is shared legal responsibility.

I saw, here, some elderly people would stop paying their property taxes for better life quality during their last years of independency.  The government would retrive the debt through acquiring the properties after their death or losing self-care abilities. In the mainstream of all culcures, the current generation would not purposely exhaust its property in lifetime but to accumulate as much to the next ones.  

 

ManyWish 2SpendAll bf death, but noOneKnows when it'll come

我们全家聊天时，我妹妹开玩笑：谁还能死个可丁可卯的？ 我看如果留不下什么还不如揩政府点油再走

敢揩政府的油？胆大包天 ；-）but that's likely return of what takenAway bf

so her joke has my backing (joking;-))

On the other hand: 父债子偿，租住连坐:-)

错了。是“族诛连坐”。

诶，不是“诛灭九族”吗? ;-))

那是犯大事儿了。

So，no need to worry about debts～：）

But those who stop paying property taxes would leave

no property to their spouses and kids even though they

have paid 80% of the mortgages ：）

Pay off the liens and they're still eligible to inherit

Yes, in China

但血浓于水中外通用。中国还曾有世袭，接班一说。