Can a credit card company collect from family members of a deceased person?

You are dealing with contract law, and I'm not aware of any credit card agreement, where in the fine print it would state such a inclusion, nor retain any validnesss even if it were. You can't assign credit card debt, or the obligation to a innocent third party, who never agreed to such a agreement in the first place, unless they were a co-signer on the account. Now I know of a party who had this happen to them, when a family member died, the credit card company tried to collect from the family. There is no law that prevents them from asking, nor any law that prevents a family member from opting to pay, but you could never be forced to become a part of the Credit Card agreement, unless you opted to do so, providing you were not a co-signer in the first place.