Once you settle your case, it takes some time to receive your check. Your legal team must take several steps: 1. One of the attorneys, usually the defendant’s attorney, drafts the settlement agreement. 2. Your attorney reviews the settlement agreement; then, if they have no changes, they will review it with you. If you or your attorney has changes, your attorney will notify the defendant’s attorney. If they agree, they will make the changes. If not, you may have to re-negotiate that part of the agreement unless the attorneys have a transcript of the settlement negotiations. Once you verbally agree, you usually cannot make changes. You can only request them if you believe something in the agreement is incorrect. 3. Once both sides accept the agreement, you will sign and notarize it. 4. Your attorney then forwards it back to the defendant’s attorney, where the defendant also signs the document.