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Key Probate Code Provisions Probate Code section 5302(a) provides that when one holder of a joint bank account passes away, the account becomes the property of the other ?unless there is clear and convincing evidence of a different intent.? This is typically referred to as a right of survivorship.

Most joint bank accounts include automatic rights of survivorship, which means that after one account signer dies, the remaining signer (or signers) retain ownership of the money in the account. The surviving primary account owner can continue using the account, and the money in it, without any interruptions.

Joint Bank Account Rules on Death The surviving account holder retains ownership regardless of which owner contributed the money, and the account doesn't go through the probate process. "The joint owner becomes the legal and equitable owner of all funds in a joint account at the instant of death," says Doehring.

If a person is a joint owner of a bank or building society account with the person who has died, then from the time of the death the joint holder automatically owns the money in the account.

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