Bluedaze* Posted on the "Alrighty Then" thread about checking accounts. And leaving your spouse on it after, incase checks come in with their name on it. Easy to deposit it. I had never thought of it. Thank you for pointing this out for us.
Also, be careful adding children to your account just in case! My sister added her daughter so if anything happened she could pay bills from it. Unfortunately my niece's ex owed the IRS money I guess from before the divorce was final. You got it - because the account had my niece's name on the IRS took the money out of there - a few thousand. When contacted the IRS admitted they took it, said they would return it but first they had to find where it went. A year afterwards she still had not gotten her money back. It has now been about 3 years and I don't know if it ever was straightened out. With my sister's dementia following her stroke she does not even remember it.