Do does my credit union have the right to block my account because my mom is behind on payments?

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Do does my credit union have the right to block my account because my mom is behind on payments?

I am 18 and part-time employee of a local store i make all my own money. My money is separate from my mom’s. Now my credit union says that they have the right to block my account, denying me access to the money that I make all because my mom is late sending in our mortgage payment and she is on my account as a 2nd person, just in case I were to get hurt or killed they could access my money. My name is not on that mortgage loan though they kept repeating that because her name is on my account they are blocking my funds. They also say that my money is her money cause her name is on my account

Asked on November 2, 2011 under Bankruptcy Law, Michigan

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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney

Answered 12 years ago | Contributor

If the account that you are writing about in your question also is in the name of your mother, then technically it is a jointly owned account between you and your mother and not all yours.

Whether or not the credit union is authorized to block access by you or your mother to this account as the result of her being behind on her mortgage payments would need to be determined from reading all documents signed by her as to the loan that she received from the credit union secured by the mortgage on the property.

I suggest that you have a meeting with the manager of the union over the situation you are writing about. Good luck.


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