Can a Palm Beach joint bank account with a right of survivorship be used to pay for a person’s Palm Beach guardianship expenses ? Yes. EVEN if the joint tenant or joint owner objects ? Yes. But what if one of the joint bank account owners dies ? —— doesn’t the account belong to the survivor ? Yes……BUT, the money in the joint account may still be used to pay for guardianship expenses of the account owner incurred before he or she died.