So my brother and my current roommate have owned websites in the past. My current got banned from it. My brother ended up selling his website a few years ago, and hasn't used adsense since. Since my roommate got banned, he took my brothers account. If he changes the name on my brothers account to his, will he get banned once again? This is what I told him, but he went ahead and did it anyways.
Your not allowed to share an account or give it away. It's tied to a person. Your brother is gambling his potential to ever use adsense again because if his roomate screws up then he can never sign up again under that name and address.
You are not allowed to transfer AdSense accounts to a new payee, so changing the name is a violation of policy. In the eyes of AdSense, the account belongs to your brother, so if your roommate does something to get it disabled, your brother will be permanently banned from AdSense. Is your brother willing to risk never being able to use AdSense again in the future?
dont do anything yet cause pretty soon your brothers account will be banned as well. the roommate is already using it and his account is already banned so he will get your brother's account ban in no time.