HOUSTON -- A year ago Monday, a robbery victim, who asks we call him 'Joe' for his own safety, lost his mother. He recently received an inheritance check, which he went to cash at a check cashing ...

Is it legal to deposit a large cash inheritance — say, $150,000 — into a bank? The money is not currently in a bank account and it is not part of an estate — let’s assume it’s just cash in an envelope ...