Panel Affirms Order Deeming Joint Accounts Of Convenience Part Of Estate

(October 13, 2023, 12:56 PM EDT) -- MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin court of appeals on Oct. 12 affirmed a lower court order granting judgment to an estate seeking a declaration that two joint accounts held by a decedent and his daughter belong to the estate, finding that the trial court’s determination that the deceased “intended to create accounts of convenience with no right of survivorship” for the daughter “is not clearly erroneous.”...