This week I was contacted by the father of a young man,
let’s call the young man Joe who is age 20.
Joe had suffered a traumatic brain injury as the result of an auto
accident and had received a settlement of $50,000. Joe’s father was concerned because Joe had
already blown through half his settlement in a month due to his discovery of
cocaine, which some new “friends” he was spending a lot of time with introduced
him to.
Joe’s father had heard of something called a Structured
Settlement, which he thought may help preserve the remainder of Joe’s
settlement from being squandered. Structured
Settlements are a financial vehicle which have been around since the 1980’s that
facilitate receiving a legal settlement with interest income tax free over time
and can sometimes have benefits over receiving the settlement all at once in a
lump sum, as in this case.
Joe’s father contacted me because my firm, White House
Settlement Consulting that I founded in 2001, has been helping injury victi…
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