No, you do not need to file his credit card debt that is completely in his name. Since he has passed, the estate should really be handling this. Since there is no estate, the debt was uncollectible. Those 1099-C forms are for the credit card companies to write off the debt on their tax returns.
in California, if there is no estate left by a deceased person, their credit card debt typically cannot be collected, and family members are not personally liable for that debt unless they were co-signers or otherwise legally responsible.
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