I have helped four of my sisters sell structured settlement payments that they received as children. It had to do with an accident in which they were all involved with a few years back. I was much younger than them, so I was not with them. Since they were all so close to the legal age, the judge awarded them all structured settlement that would be given to them on their twenty first birthdays.

It seemed that none of them wanted to wait that long and so when they turned eighteen; we got the ball rolling on what it took to sell structured settlement payments. I was very smart and reading all the necessary legal paperwork was what I was good at. One by one, I helped them get their money right away and be done with the structured settlement that they used to have.

My parents were very worried that they would all go and blow the money and then have nothing left for their futures but they all used it for college and then had some left over to start a life on their own, wherever they chose to. The youngest of my four sisters, is currently working towards her master degree in Illinois and the rest are all out west pursing their careers.