{"id":12045,"date":"2020-08-02T07:03:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T12:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legaltalktexas.hammerle.com\/?p=12045"},"modified":"2025-06-18T17:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:19:20","slug":"why-you-shouldnt-keep-life-savings-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/probate\/why-you-shouldnt-keep-life-savings-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Dash for Cash &#8211; Informal Funding of Inheritance Has Hidden Dangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several years ago I had a <a href=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/estate-planning-and-probate\/probate-and-its-process-explained\/\">probate<\/a> consultation with three very nice people whose great-aunt had recently died.\u00a0 They apologized for their somewhat disheveled appearance and explained that they had spent the day dismantling furniture, prying up floorboards and digging up the backyard of their great-aunt\u2019s residence.\u00a0 It seems that their great-aunt did not believe in banks, and so she kept her savings in cash and hid it in odd places around her house.\u00a0 By the time my clients made it to my office they had recovered over $40,000 and they still had 4 rooms, two clothes closets and an attic to go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They were lucky. They thought their relative had been destitute and discovered the first cash envelope, taped to the back of a dresser, by sheer accident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It turns out that hiding cash and valuables is a well-known phenomenon, especially for older folks who have gone through the Great Depression or <a href=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/elder-law\/10-early-warning-signs-of-dementia\/\">who have dementia<\/a>. There are all sorts of helpful internet articles about the usual hiding places: inside the mattress, between the wall boards, behind a loose brick in the chimney, under the floorboard, tucked into clothing, buried under the backyard tree, or taped inside the piano.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If those hiding spots are too mundane, then consider putting it in an envelope taped to the bottom of your cat\u2019s litter box, or in a watertight plastic jar in the toilet tank, or in the ice cream container in your freezer.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why You Shouldn&#8217;t Keep Your Life Savings at Home<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So is hiding your life savings in your home a good idea? In a word, No.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having a houseful of cash could be dangerous. Consider the case of Hee-Haw comedian David \u201cStringbean\u201d Akeman and his wife who were murdered in 1973 after returning home from the Grand Ole Opry. The villains were two thieves who had heard that Akeman had thousands of dollars hidden in his house because he did not trust banks.\u00a0 The thieves did not find the money, but they had been right; decades later thousands of dollars were discovered hidden in the couple\u2019s chimney and clothing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your cash may never be found. Your house and\/or its contents could burn up, get sold in an estate sale or be blown apart by a tornado. The dog could eat it. It could turn into a block of moldy and unrecognizable paper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dash for cash could leave lasting hard feelings among your friends and relatives.\u00a0 Siblings racing past the guerney carting your dead body out the front door so they can start the search, an estranged child bravely volunteering to house-sit alone during the funeral, a caring neighbor thoughtfully boxing up personal items for donating to the charity. All it takes is a bit of uninterrupted time in the homestead and the ability to look innocent when questioned by suspicious relatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You could be setting your loved one up for a criminal investigation. Say your brother actually found the $40,000.\u00a0 What do you think the IRS and the FBI are going to conclude when your brother deposits that much cash into his bank account?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you are doing your <a href=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/wills-trusts-estate-planning\/keeping-track-of-your-estate-planning-documents\/\">estate planning<\/a>, do not forget to make a plan for distributing your cash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/lawyers\/virginia-hammerle\/\">Virginia Hammerle<\/a> is a Texas attorney whose practice includes <a href=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/practice-areas\/estate-planning-probate\/estate-planning\/\">estate planning<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/practice-areas\/elder-law\/guardianship\/\">guardianship<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/practice-areas\/estate-planning-probate\/probate\/\">probate<\/a>. Sign up for her newsletter at <a href=\"mailto:legaltalk@hammerle.com\">legaltalk@hammerle.com<\/a>. Contact Hammerle Morris Law Firm to <a href=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/lewisville-attorney\/\">schedule a consultation at hammerle.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This column does not constitute legal advice.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago I had a probate consultation with three very nice people whose great-aunt had recently died.\u00a0 They apologized for their somewhat disheveled appearance and explained that they had spent the day dismantling furniture, prying up floorboards and digging up the backyard of their great-aunt\u2019s residence.\u00a0 It seems that their great-aunt did not believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1225,42],"tags":[1060,685],"class_list":{"0":"post-12045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-probate","8":"category-wills-trusts","9":"tag-elder-law","10":"tag-estate-planning"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dash for Cash - Informal Funding of Inheritance Has Hidden Dangers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When you are doing your estate planning, do not forget to make a plan for distributing your cash. 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