You can never have enough...

[popeye333]

One reason to close joint accounts when one party dies is because later developing estate matters can cause complications, so the banks want to wind up and shed their responsibilitities as quickly and neatly as possible.Hence they require all the usual documentation from surviving parties and close off the business relationship, thereby passing responsibility on...

I have never understood the motivation beyond challenging wills and claiming on estates, but lots of people do it. Just as lots of people use their final wishes to do harm to others. Human beings are weird creatures. And banks know it, lol.

Agree Hunni. I didn't even have to prove he had died. I just told them and they wanted to close the account, but did give me 6 months. 

Only MrP's kids could have challenged his will, but they would get what has been  "allowed" for them, to prevent them contesting his will, complete with Affidavits stating why they were getting the grand sum of $5 each. 

It would have been worth it to see there faces, to put it bluntly. Especially when the youngest son learned that Our Lawyer was the Lawyer he had once years ago, in court. Our Lawyer being the On Duty lawyer at the time. 

Our Lawyer is now a Court Judge. He had his pet names for MrP's previous family. The mother being the "mama" of the mafia lol. 

It would have been worth $20 to see the look on his face lol.