Though O.J. Simpson was controversially acquitted for the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman, he was found liable for the duo’s wrongful deaths in a 1997 civil suit and was ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages to their families.

At the time of O.J. Simpson’s death, the money judgment from the Fred Goldman vs. O.J. Simpson lawsuit had been only partially satisfied, leading Fred Goldman and his lawyer to pursue the remainder of the judgment from the O.J. Simpson estate.

It is a commonly held belief that any debt a person owes dies with them. In this article, a Keystone probate lawyer weighs in on the accuracy of this notion through the lens of O.J. Simpson’s death.