Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Massachusetts

If you have no assets and the creditors are not ones which can make claims against your spouse. However, you cannot make gifts just before you die such that you have no assets, the creditors will be able to go after those assets.

Upon your death, your estate must pay all valid debts. It is not that you must pay the debts, or your heirs must pay the debts, but that the estate must pay debts prior to distribution of your estate to heirs.