A joint account held by persons who are not married nor related can be levied by a judgment creditor to the extent of the funds in the account that belong to the debtor.
It depends on who the garnisment order is against and how it is written. A joint account where only one person is the debtor can be garnished under certain circumstances. The difficulty in figuring...
Most Financial institutions open checking accounts through a credit bureau call Chex Systems, if your are not in their files for anything negative you will most likely be able to open an account.
It turns out that the answer is yes, which was rather a surprise to me. A person I know closed her joint checking account (with her husband) after her divorce, because he kept overdrawing on the...