Section 6661 Of Article 2. Savings Accounts From California Financial Code >> Division 2. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 2.
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. Notice to an association or federal association of an adverse
claim to a savings account of, or to personal property held for the
account of, any person shall be disregarded, and the association or
federal association, notwithstanding the notice, shall honor
withdrawal applications and shall pay withdrawals and interest to the
person or persons to whose credit the account stands or shall
deliver the property to or upon the order of the person for whose
account the property is held, without any liability on the part of
the association or federal association; subject, however, to the
exceptions provided in subdivisions (a) and (b):
(a) If an adverse claimant delivers to the association or federal
association at the office at which the account is carried or the
property held an affidavit of the claimant stating that of the
claimant's own knowledge the person to whose credit the deposit
stands or for whose account the property is held is a fiduciary for
the adverse claimant and that the claimant has reason to believe the
fiduciary is about to misappropriate the account or the property, and
stating the facts upon which the claim of fiduciary relationship and
the belief are founded, the association or federal association shall
refuse to pay withdrawals or interest on the account and shall
refuse to deliver the property for a period of not more than three
court days (including the day of delivery) from the date that the
association or federal association received the adverse claimant's
affidavit, without liability on its part and without liability for
the sufficiency or truth of the facts alleged in the affidavit.
(b) If at any time, either before, after, or in the absence of the
filing of an affidavit by the adverse claimant, the adverse claimant
procures and serves upon the association or federal association at
the office at which the account is carried or the property held a
restraining order, injunction, or other appropriate order against the
association or federal association from a court of competent
jurisdiction in an action in which the adverse claimant and all
persons in whose names the account stands or for whose account the
property is held are the parties, the association or federal
association shall comply with the order or injunction, without
liability on its part.
(c) The provisions of this section shall be applicable even though
the name of the person appearing on the books to whose credit the
account stands or for whose account the property is held is modified
by a qualifying or descriptive term such as "agent," "trustee," or
other word or phrase indicating that the person may hold the account
or property in a fiduciary capacity.
(d) Nothing in the California Multiple-Party Accounts Law
contained in Part 2 (commencing with Section 5100) of Division 5 of
the Probate Code limits the applicability of this section.