Wednesday, March 17, 2010

What happens when a person uses credit cards to day trade? Person dies and has possible debt?

What can the daytrade company do to collect this debt? Does the credit card company have any claim to his account?

What happens when a person uses credit cards to day trade? Person dies and has possible debt?
The brokerage wouldn't have to do anything. You have to deposit the money into the brokerage account and have cleared funds before you can trade. You would have to use a cash advance or a credit card check to get money to deposit into your brokerage account.





So your estate would owe the credit card company, just the same as if you had run up your credit cards on anything else. The executor of your estate would have to sell something to cover the debts, and the stocks would be a likely a candidate. So really, in the event of your death, the credit card company doesn't have a specific claim on the stocks, but a general claim against all of your assets, before they are disbursed to your heirs.
Reply:i think the persons next of kin are responsible wife, husband, kids
Reply:stock brokers do not accept credit cards only money in the form of cleared checks.
Reply:The debt will be owed by that person's estate. Think about it, if you had $100,000 in the bank, and the bank manager died, would you no longer have any claim to the money they "owed" you?


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