Questions tagged [personal-check]
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Is it valid to write checks without spelling out the amount?
I've been writing checks this way for the last ~15 years or so:
Namely, the amount field is written using numbers like
1,500 and 00/100
rather than the tedious, painful spelling out of
One Thousand Five Hundred and 00/100
99 times out of 100,…
Jeff Atwood
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How do you write a check with cents?
The other day I wrote a check and on the line that you write the amount in words I put how many dollars and wrote right next to that 50/100 without any line or the word "and". Will this work, because I already gave the check and am freaking out!
user26509
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Chase closed my account
My dad was in hospital sick, he wrote me a check to pay his bills for him. I deposited the day of his death, I talked with his credit union and they approved it and released it to my bank. Chase closed my accounts, it has been 4 weeks an I still…
sheila jackson
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Overloading checks
I recently went to the bank to deposit several thousand checks I saved up.
They refused, told me to contact corporate.
Is this normal? Do banks have some limit on accepting huge amounts of checks for a personal account?
I'm pretty sure a normal bank…
D J Sims
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Is this a real check?
I was recently given a personal check that had only the routing number on the bottom but no account number. There appears to be a number in the top left corner that could be it. Can i cash this check?
George
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Mistake on back of check
If I signed over a check mailed to me to my daughter but made a mistake can I cross her name out and initial it so I can cash like I was going to
