Well, yes I think debt can be inherited from parents or relatives, depending on the person that is very close to the debtor or the person that stood as a guarantor for the gambler. Before someone takes loan, they usually use someone as their guarantor which is liable to pay the loan if the real borrower is unable to repay or perhaps the person dies. If the children of the borrower are wealthy enough, they will be entitled to clear their dad's debt to avoid drama from the lender. This kind of issues have caused several issues in my place.
Why would someone inherit gambling debt? This is ridiculous and I don't think this would be accepted everywhere.
There are some places where inheriting gambling debt is impossible and can never be tolerated. Everyone needs to carry their cross and should not be extended to others that do not partake in it. Gambling debt can be possible in some advanced countries but their world be a lot of consideration that need to put into a book. I think for a person to inherit gambling debt, their should be a written agreement or something that would be shown in court that such an agreement to structured on behave of the two parties with a written legal reference.
In my comment, when I said that "borrowers often uses a guarantor because it is most times requested by the lender" I was not only referring to debts incurred for the sake of gambling. I was generally referring to loans collected for what so ever reasons. It doesn't means if it's for gambling purpose, medical purpose, business purpose and personal use. Loan is what it is no matter the purpose it was used for.
Take for example, someone collected a loan and used his house as a collateral without any guarantor and used the money to gamble and lost it. Due to some circumstance, he passed away and couldn't repay the loan. If the kids of this man is alive and they have the financial capability to repay the loan, will they repay it or allow the house of their Dad to be claimed by the lender?
Such a situation will definitely force the children to repay the loan or stand the chance to lose their fathers house.
In that situation, what the money was used for doesn't matter to the lender.
Well, yes I think debt can be inherited from parents or relatives, depending on the person that is very close to the debtor or the person that stood as a guarantor for the gambler. Before someone takes loan, they usually use someone as their guarantor which is liable to pay the loan if the real borrower is unable to repay or perhaps the person dies. If the children of the borrower are wealthy enough, they will be entitled to clear their dad's debt to avoid drama from the lender. This kind of issues have caused several issues in my place.
First of all, there is no debt as "Gambling Debt". A debt is a debt, no matter for what purpose you took it. It makes no difference whether the debt was taken to gamble or for any other purpose, it has to be repaid.
I was not specific on any debt, my comments clearly suggest that I am not specifically referring to only loans collected for gambling sake. As a matter of fact, if loan is collected, what ever the loan was used for doesn't primarily concern the lender. The lender's primary concern is to get his money and interest back from the borrower.