MARINE MIDLAND BANK-NEW YORK v. ARMS

No. 81-354.

409 So.2d 215 (1982)

MARINE MIDLAND BANK-NEW YORK, Appellant, v. William F. ARMS and Great American Bank of Davie, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

February 3, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Robert Olian of Britton, Cohen, Kaufman, Benson & Schantz, Miami, for appellant.

Dixon Thomas of Dubow & Thomas, Dania, for appellee Arms.


LETTS, Chief Judge.

At issue here is the question of whether a bank account opened in the name of a husband OR his wife could be, as the trial found, "a tenancy by the entirety" and therefore exempt from garnishment proceedings brought against the husband alone. We affirm.

By itself, a bank account issued in the name of a husband OR his wife would not be sufficient to establish any kind of joint tenancy. However, in the case before us the signature...

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