Hearing Preparation
Before your settlement can become cash now, a judge must confirm that the sale is in your best interest. This is a legal safeguard, and like all legal safeguards it rewards preparation. Our Hearing Preparation Programme ($2,400) prepares you to explain, sincerely, why now is the right time.
Why the hearing exists
The court's role is to protect people selling their future at a panic discount. The court does this by asking the seller questions. Our programme's finding, developed across 3,684 journeys, is that the questions are predictable, the answers are learnable, and the discount is unaffected by either. Preparation does not improve the outcome. It improves the appointment.
The programme
Module 1 — The Sincere Present Tense
Judges respond well to clients who need cash now and can say so without looking at their notes. Module 1 drills the core testimony until it is yours: the emergency, the opportunity, the arithmetic that only works today. Graduates report entering the courtroom with nothing written down, which is the point.
Module 2 — Handling the Judge's Arithmetic
The judge may observe that you are exchanging $500,000 for $164,304. He is correct, and Module 2 does not dispute it. You will learn to agree with the number and redirect the court toward time, risk, and the certainty of now. Our materials describe this as "conceding the principal and contesting the interest."
Module 3 — Best Interest, Explained to Someone Experiencing It
The hearing turns on the phrase "best interest." Module 3 explores what the phrase has historically covered: debts, opportunities, family, and one client's boat. There is no required answer. There is a required steadiness, and Module 3 delivers it.
Outcomes
Across all completed journeys, 96% of hearings approved the transfer at first attempt. The remaining 4% were asked to return with better reasons, and did. No hearing has ever refused a transfer twice. The court, like the journey, completes.
"The judge asked if I understood what I was giving up. I said I understood it better than anyone in the courtroom, because I had two years earlier watched myself agree to receive it."
D.W. · Rotherham, journey completed in 43 monthsA note on the other half of the courtroom
Clients are sometimes surprised to learn that the purchasing side of the hearing is also represented by Wentlow, in the person of our counsel, who sits nearer the exit. This is a consequence of full integration and is disclosed here in the interest of the transparency the court will shortly be hearing about.
Stage 5 is years away
Enrolment in the Programme opens at Stage 4. Thinking about it earlier is free, and most clients do.
Common QuestionsThe judge's questions are also common. Ours come with answers.
Wentlow Capital Group is fictional. No hearing has ever been prepared for or attended. Part of joel2.com.