21-1782 Joint accounts. - Nebraska Statutes

21-1782. Joint accounts.(1) A credit union member may designate any person or persons to own a share account with the member in joint tenancy with right of survivorship, as a tenant in common, or under any other form of joint ownership permitted by law, but no co-owner, unless a member in his or her own right, shall be permitted to vote, obtain loans, or hold office. In the event of the death of the person who owns the share account, the share account funds and any dividends thereon shall be paid to the co-owner and shall not be maintained in a share account unless the co-owner is a member in his or her own right.(2) Payment of part or all of such accounts to any of the co-owners shall, to the extent of such payment, discharge the credit union's liability to all such co-owners unless the account agreement contains a prohibition or limitation on such payment. SourceLaws 1996, LB 948, § 82.