Can You Deposit a Million Dollar Check in the ATM? Ask Serena Williams!

Have you inherited a million dollars from your dad or grandma’s Florida estate? Has your Palm Beach estate lawyer won a will contest for you and handed you a nice inheritance check? How can trust and estates lawyers in Florida help you to get your inheritance? What would you do with a million bucks?

Florida probate lawyers know that inheriting or receiving a million dollars is a big deal! People are obviously excited and ready to deposit it in their bank accounts. Wouldn’t you be? However, it is probably not expected that many people would try to deposit such a large check in the drive-through ATM. Well, according to a July 12, 2017 ESPN article, that’s exactly what Serena Williams once tried to do! The tennis star had just received her first seven figure check. To her surprise, the ATM did not accept it and she had to walk inside. I know, having to walk inside a bank these days, with drive-through ATMs and mobile depositing apps available, is pretty rare. However, if you’re lucky enough to inherit or earn a million dollar check, you may have to actually get out of the car to deposit it!

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