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julblam
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Illinois resident...My grandmother just passed recently. She had 2 sons and 5 accounts, all of which are jointly owned, and do not fall under the will, which does state that everything is to be divided 50/50. My father (brother 2), who is not the executor, only had access to 2 accounts. Brother 1, and his wife are joint owners on 3 accounts which total almost $80,000. The accounts my father (brother 2) were on were valued about $47,000. The 2 accounts we have access to were worded as brother 1 or brother 2. Brother 2 withdrew the money from those 2 accounts. There has been a feud for the last 20 years, and brother 1 has made it very clear to brother 2 that he will not get a dime. So, brother 2 closed the 2 accounts that he had access to, since the wording was "OR". Can brother 1 now sue for half of the money in those 2 accounts? We do know that we cannot sue for half of the $80,000, since our name was not on the accounts.