Submitted on Saturday 28th April 2018
Rejected on Friday 4th May 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Allow people to get out of a joint bank account in a abusive relationship
If you have a joint bank account in the UK- at the moment you need a signature of both parties to take your name out of the joint bank account. Especially in a case of a abusive relationship it is nearly impossible that the other party will be so nice to let you out of it.
It makes is very hard for a woman to leave the abusive partner when she can't even get out of an bank account where the powerful partner could bring her in debt/overdraft.
The right of a victim should be to make the decision to leave when they need to leave.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
At the moment, this is the responsibility of banks, not the UK Government or Parliament.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do. For example, you could ask for it to be a legal requirement that banks should allow a person in an abusive relationship to leave a joint bank account.
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