My Parents Chose a Birthday Dinner Over My Family’s Funeral—Then They Asked for Thirty Percent of the $18.7 Million Settlement
I wanted a single guardrail I could point to and say this changed something.
The work needed more than my desire for a visible answer.
We built the program around that understanding.
By January, the settlement and the charitable dedication had passed through the required approvals.
The full eighteen point seven million dollars was directed under the agreed instructions into the restricted charitable structure.
The funds did not enter my ordinary spending account.
They also did not make any valid claimant or creditor disappear.
Those issues had been addressed before the dedication.