<prompt> Human: Id like to get some advice from the Personal Finance community on a recent request from my husbands father. This is a very strange situation, one I would much prefer not to be in.Heres the backstory:My spouse and I at one point last year needed to have access to a commercial line of credit of 100,000. This line of credit was sponsored by my spouses well off and fiscally savvy family member. He had his bank extend us a commercial line of credit at a 2 interest rate, secured by the balances in his accounts. We only used part of the credit line, and our financial goal for 2015 is to pay off the balance leaving us debt free by November, which we anticipate achieving.The situation:A few days ago, my spouses father, who knew about the credit line, asked my spouse casually in a social context whether wed wound up using the line of credit. Unsuspiciously, my spouse told him the situation.The next day, my spouse got a call from their father, saying that he needed the exact amount of money remaining on our line of credit for his business, within a few days. He has received the same help from the generous relative himself already several hundred thousand of commercial credit line for this business. He does not want to go back to the relative to ask for another line of credit and is instead asking us for access to ours. He has said that he is happy to whatever terms and guarantees we would want to put in place.The decision:Every rational part of me says that the answer here is a firm no. We are uncomfortable with the credit line in the first place, and are trying to eliminate it as quickly as possible. It concerns me that my spouses father has already put quite a bit of money into the business, and needs more, and is reluctant to reach directly to the generous relative. However, if it were my father, I would have a hard time saying no. I would feel more comfortable simply giving him a smaller sum as a gift, even if it wouldnt meet his needs, than taking out money from the line of credit in our names and lending it to him. Personal Finance, can any of you provide advice or thoughts on how to handle this request, without burning bridges with my spouses family?  <response>: No, were actually in the process of closing the line of credit. Sorry. 