Section 5405 Of Chapter 4. Protection Of Financial Institution From California Probate Code >> Division 5. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 4.
5405
. (a) Payment made pursuant to Section 5401, 5402, 5403, or
5404 discharges the financial institution from all claims for amounts
so paid whether or not the payment is consistent with the beneficial
ownership of the account as between parties, P.O.D. payees, or
beneficiaries, or their successors.
(b) The protection provided by subdivision (a) does not extend to
payments made after the financial institution has been served with a
court order restraining payment. No other notice or any other
information shown to have been available to a financial institution
shall affect its right to the protection provided by subdivision (a).
(c) Unless the notice is withdrawn by a subsequent writing, after
receipt of a written notice from any party that withdrawals in
accordance with the terms of the account, other than a checking
account, share draft account, or other similar third-party payment
instrument, should not be permitted, except with the signatures of
more than one of the parties during their lifetimes or of more than
one of the survivors after the death of any one of the parties, the
financial institution may only pay the sums on deposit in accordance
with the written instructions pending determination of the rights of
the parties or their successors. No liability shall attach to the
financial institution for complying with the terms of any written
notice provided pursuant to this subdivision.
(d) The protection provided by this section has no bearing on the
rights of parties in disputes between themselves or their successors
concerning the beneficial ownership of funds in, or withdrawn from,
multiple-party accounts and is in addition to, and not exclusive of,
any protection provided the financial institution by any other
provision of law.