Custodial account transfer mishandled, funds disbursed without account holder consent
A family attempting to transfer a youth custodial account to the new adult account holder found the account closed and the balance sent to another family member as a check, discovered only after the fact. Repeated calls could not get the bank to explain or fix the error.
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