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Chapter 35

The Eighteenth Birthday Cliff

This chapter answers: What changes, legally and financially, the day my child becomes a legal adult?

Keep this current

Federal IDEA transition services begin at 16; some states start at 14. Adult beneficiaries may also be able to sell structured payments with court approval. Rules change. Confirm with your attorney.

Use it this week

  • Re-read the chapter’s Questions to Ask and write your answers in the Part V notebook.
  • Work through the chapter’s What to Do This Week list and note dates and names as you go.
  • Bring any questions about your own situation to the right professional, and to Bill if they involve the money.

Ask Bill about this chapter

Read it and still have a question? Send it. Bill reads these himself.