Ensuring Immediate Cash Access After Death with Joint Bank Accounts

How do you actually make sure your family has cash the day after you die? Listen in as Kirsten walks through the one strategy that genuinely works: adding a trusted person as a co-owner of a small checking account while you're still alive. Unlike trust accounts or pay-on-death designations, a joint account co-owner doesn't need a death certificate — they can access the funds immediately. But here's the catch Kirsten highlights: legally, when you die, that account belongs entirely to the surviving co-owner through right of survivorship. Most families handle this well, but only when there's been an honest conversation and a written statement explaining that the account was set up for practical purposes — not as an inheritance. https://absolutetrustcounsel.com/203-estate-planning-misses-how-to-make-cash-available-immediately-after-death/

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