An additional cardholder is someone who a main credit card customer has agreed may be issued with a separate card on his or her credit card account. The essential thing to bear in mind when agreeing to have an additional cardholder is that additional cardholders are not liable for any debt run up on the card. Those debts are always the responsibility of the main cardholder.
This is in stark contrast to a joint account or a mortgage taken out in joint names, where each party has jointly and severally liability – either party can be sued for the debt, either by themselves or together, the lender can choose.
The way that a credit card account is managed is reported on the credit report of the main cardholder, but not on the credit report of the additional cardholder.
Additional cardholders also have very limited rights even to the extent that they may not be able to obtain any information about the credit card account when contacting the credit card company direct.
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