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• What is a structured settlement

  A claim settled in instalments and funded by an annuity, and why the law makes selling those instalments harder than selling anything else.

• How do structured settlements work

  From verdict to payment schedule: who agrees what, who funds it, who pays you, and what has to happen before any of it can change.

• Structured settlement annuity

  The annuity behind a settlement: who issued it, why it is not the same as one you buy, and what that means if you want to sell the payments.

• Structured settlement agreement

  The document that decides which payments you can sell, who must be notified, and what a court will be reading when it considers a transfer.

• Structured settlement payments

  What a payment stream is made of - guaranteed against life-contingent, term against lump sums - and why the shape decides what it is worth.

• Structured settlement payout

  How a payout is calculated from a payment schedule, what the discount rate does to it, and the yardstick a court measures the result against.

• Sell your structured settlement

  What you actually receive after the discount, what moves it, and the two numbers a judge in New York is told to look at before approving anything.

• Sell my structured settlement

  What to gather before you ask for a number, what you will be asked for, and the order the process runs in so nothing surprises you.

• Sale of structured settlement

  The transaction seen from the paperwork: who signs what, who gets notified, and what the file looks like when it reaches the judge.

• Structured settlements for sale

  Who is actually selling, what the secondary market looks like from the payee's side, and why an advertised deal is never the whole transaction.

• Cash out structured settlement

  Cashing out in full against in part, what each costs, and why the partial transfer is usually the better trade and the later offer.

• Cash in structured settlements

  Why you cannot surrender a settlement annuity the way you can cash in a policy, and what the alternative actually is.

• Structured settlement cash

  Getting cash from a settlement: the transfer, the partial transfer, and the options worth pricing before you discount a future payment.

• Structured settlement loan

  Why a loan against settlement payments is almost never a loan, what is being offered instead, and how to tell the two apart before signing.

• Structured settlement buyer

  Who buys payment rights, how the statutes describe them, what they are required to give you, and what to ask before accepting an offer.

• Who buys structured settlements

  The shape of the buy side: a small number of specialist firms, brokers who quote several of them, and why this site names none of them.

• Structured settlement investments

  Why a buyer pays what it pays: the return it is buying, the risk it is not taking, and what that tells a payee about the discount rate.

• Sell annuity for cash

  Selling an annuity that is not a settlement annuity: what you can do with a policy you own, and where the two routes part company.

• Sell annuity payments

  Selling a stream of annuity payments: what a buyer prices, what it will ask for, and which of the two regimes your sale falls under.

• Annuity buyers

  Who buys annuity payments, what they are required to tell you where a settlement is involved, and the three figures to ask every one of them for.

• Structured settlement vs lump sum

  The comparison people make before they decide, with the two things that usually decide it: the discount, and what the money is for.

• Are structured settlements taxable

  The tax position of the payments themselves, and the separate question of what a transfer does to it, with the one figure the statute names.

• Car accident lawsuit loans

  Pre-settlement funding is a different product from a settlement transfer: no court approval, no fixed repayment, and a much higher cost.

• Sell structured settlement payments

  The process in order: the offer, the written disclosure, the advice you are entitled to, the filing, and the hearing that decides it.