You need to take the death certificate of the person who is no more to the bank and submit it to them along with your details. After verification the bank will remove their name from the joint account and make you the sole beneficiary. In case the other person has a different legal heir, then you may need an No Objection Certificate from them before the account becomes your single operated account.
Theoretically speaking - Yes. Any number of people can have a joint account. But, practically speaking only 2 or 3 people hold a joint account together. The more the number of joint account holders, the more difficult it gets to handle the transactions in the account for both the customers and the bank.
Joint account.
It means that more than one person is authorised to write cheques on that account.
A joint bank account is something that is owned/controlled by more than one person. So, to divide a joint bank account, the joint account holders have to come to an agreement as to who will be the sole owner of the account. Then, they must visit the bank and submit a written request. The bank will change the account to a single owned account after receiving the No Objection Letter from the other holders of the account.
You can have a joint bank account when two or more individuals especially in a partnership business opens an account with the firm name and have more than one signatures.
A joint-account
1000 for atm or more 2000 rupees were enough for open the joint account
No, you have an undivided interest in the entire bank account and it is up to you and the other joint tenants of the account to agree how the account will be used. If you are the sole remaining joint owner, then the entire account becomes yours. If you die before one or more other joint tenants, you and your estate have no further claim to the account, even if it was entirely your money that was deposited.
There are pros and cons to spouses sharing a joint account. In today's volatile economic climate, it is more adviasable to have separate accounts. If you wish to have a joint account, use it as a maintenance account for paying joint bills: mortgage, utilities, groceries, etc.
A joint account can be frozen by a judgment creditor of one owner. That can cause not only an indeterminate period of inconvenience for the non-debtor owner but also may result in the loss of half of the funds in the account. You should not open a joint account with another person who has a history of debt problems. You can read more about frozen bank accounts in general at the link provided below.
It is called a joint account. A joint account is one when two or more people agree to operate a bank account in a joint/collective manner and are together responsible for the activities in the bank account. One party can carry on with transactions in the account with or without the knowledge of the other holders of the account
When two or more people own a joint account, ownership of the account passes to the surviving owner(s) when one dies. If a person has an account in their name alone the account becomes a part of their estate when they die. In that case, it will used to pay debts first and any remaining balance would pass to the heirs under the will or under the laws of intestacy.