How to protect yourself from a spouse’s debt

Dear Mr. Premack: All of the funds in my mother’s estate passed as non-testamentary POD bank accounts and IRA accounts to named beneficiaries. I became Executor under her Will, but there is no money to pay her debts. Can I, as Executor, I require any of the named beneficiaries to contribute to the estate’s debts from their respective portions? – WRP Funds paid to beneficiaries under POD accounts or Right of Survivorship arrangements can be pulled back into the estate if there