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What if someone dies and the credit card is in arrears?
Legal analysis: the credit card debtor dies and needs to be repaid with his inheritance. If there is no inheritance, the arrears will be eliminated. If the heir inherits the inheritance, he shall bear the responsibility of repaying the credit card debt within the scope of the inheritance. Inheritance shall pay off the taxes and debts that the decedent should pay according to law, and the payment of taxes and debts shall be limited to the actual value of his estate. The part exceeding the actual value of the estate shall be voluntarily repaid by the heir.

Legal basis: Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Article 667 A loan contract is a contract in which the borrower borrows money from the lender, repays the loan at maturity and pays interest.

Article 671 Where the lender fails to provide the loan on the agreed date and amount, thus causing losses to the borrower, it shall compensate for the losses.

If the borrower fails to collect the loan according to the agreed date and amount, it shall pay interest according to the agreed date and amount.

Article 675 The borrower shall repay the loan within the agreed time limit. If the term of the loan is not agreed or clearly agreed, and cannot be determined according to the provisions of Article 510 of this Law, the borrower may return it at any time; The lender may urge the borrower to return it within a reasonable period of time.