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BANK CHARGES

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2021 3:31pm
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bluenose1875

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My myself and my wife have Recidency in Spain. We have 3 Bank accounts. 

We would like to make a joint account 

Any thoughts charges wise. 

tebo53

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2021 3:41pm

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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2021 3:41pm

bluenose1875 wrote on Sun Oct 17, 2021 3:31pm:

My myself and my wife have Recidency in Spain. We have 3 Bank accounts. 

We would like to make a joint account 

Any thoughts charges wise. 

Myself and my wife have a joint account with Sabadell. There have been no extra charges levied. 

Steve 

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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2021 6:22pm

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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2021 6:22pm

We have heard that, in the event of a death, a joint account may be frozen by the bank until the estate has been dealt with.  The surviving partner could be severely disadvantaged in such a case, so it makes sense to have access to funds independently for both parties. In theory a deposit type of account, where the bank pay to hold the funds could be the way forward, always supposing one has sufficient money to sit waiting.

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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:57pm

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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:57pm

Purple gran wrote on Sun Oct 17, 2021 6:22pm:

We have heard that, in the event of a death, a joint account may be frozen by the bank until the estate has been dealt with.  The surviving partner could be severely disadvantaged in such a case, so it makes sense to have access to funds independently for both parties. In theory a deposit ty...

...pe of account, where the bank pay to hold the funds could be the way forward, always supposing one has sufficient money to sit waiting.

As far as I am aware, the type of deposit account I think you mean, is unknown to Spanish retail banking. They simply do not exist. Anything which is promoted as a deposit account, on further research, is usually linked to some kind of investment fund, thus, in theory, carrying the, remote, chance of losing the money.

I know this having recently spent a considerable period of time trying to arrange exactly this for money held by my mother from the sale of her house.

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