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When joint bank accounts with relatives can still be shared by ex-spouses
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In a dispute, joint bank account owners must still prove their entitlement to the funds because the law will not automatically define who owns the money.
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A woman embroiled in a bitter divorce failed to stop her former husband from sharing the $140,000 that was kept in a joint bank account with her late father because she could not prove she had inherited the money.
She claimed the money belonged to her father and she took over the account after he died, but she did not produce any bank statement to support her case.
