Tummelson v. White, a 2015 4th District appellate case, considers the inconvenient topic of what rights a former cohabitant has to funds he contributed to a home after he gets ousted from it by an ex-. The parties lived together for several years in two different homes and paid mortgage and household expenses from a …
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Joint Owner of Checking Account Must Prove Exclusive Right to Funds by Elevated Burden of Proof – IL Appeals Court
Gataric v. Colak, 2016 IL App (1st) 151281 presents a collection tug of war between a judgment creditor and a third party concerning funds in a joint bank account. The salient issue is what level of proof the third party must meet in order to rebut the presumption that the bank account funds belong not to …
Creditor Rights To A Debtor’s Joint Bank Account Funds and Life Insurance Policies
(Photo credit: www.wisegeek.com: Google images) In the perpetual cat-and-mouse game played out across the collection law landscape, an important recurring question is what rights a creditor has to a debtor’s joint bank account – an account with two or more account holders. The creditor wants to attach as much of the account as possible to …