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A funeral in Ghana
You have rights of survivorship
Depending on the local laws within respective countries, a spouse who loses a partner goes through a lot of difficulty and long legal processes to claim money in a separate account. But with a joint account, the surviving partner can still retain access to the funds without looking at what has been expressed in a will or what the deceased and family members think.