{"id":609172,"date":"2026-04-17T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609172\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:04:09","slug":"what-to-do-when-you-inherit-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609172\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do when you inherit money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 17, 2026 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>When US researchers compared inheritors with those who received different windfalls such as legal settlements or lottery wins, they uncovered something interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Those who inherited money were 24 per cent more likely to have spent their entire inheritance in the first year; in fact, almost half (44 per cent) of inheritors did just that, the University of Alabama and Texas Tech University researchers found.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 17, 2026 \u2013 5.00am When US researchers compared inheritors with those who received different windfalls such as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":["post-609172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}