If you have taken out the cash value (and your policy hasn't died because of it) and you die, then your family gets the death benefit less the amount of money
you pulled out of the cash value.
Not exact matches
This meant they only needed to make payments for a short period
of time before the
values increased, allowing them to
pull cash out.
There is always a risk that
pulling too much
cash out of your home now could ultimately lead to being underwater if housing
values continue to fall.
Similarly with futures, over time
cash is
pulled out of your account if the position loses
value, and deposited into your account if the position gains.
Other homeowners may
pull cash out to make improvements to their home which may increase its
value, lower their loan - to -
value ratio and improve the quality
of their living situation.
It has
cash value — since the plan is a whole life plan it does have a savings element that accumulates
cash value which you can
pull out as a loan in case
of small emergencies.
Personally, I'd rather keep the life insurance, use the
cash values to supplement my investments and / or use the
cash value to pay my income in the years the stock market goes down (like 2001, 2008, etc) so that I don't end up worse off than when I began because at the end
of the day that account can't lose its
value, I can't be sued for the
value of it, I don't need to report it on my son's FAFSA form for college, AND if I
pull money
out of it for my son's school, the dividend still pays the same amount as if I hadn't drawn the money
out in the first place (fun fact: that last point isn't something that a northwestern policy does, but new york life and massmutual's contracts do).
We often work with people who are trying to
pull the
cash value out of their non-guaranteed universal life insurance policy.
(There's more on this in
Cash Value and Life Insurance: How to
Pull Money
Out of Your Policy.)
Think
of this... 30k might bring up 550 a month but If you refi
cash out on new valuation it's likely to be higher valuation on rents and you can
pull 100k and still be covered by your new renter
value and use the 100k on another project or deal
Trading down in
value and / or
pulling cash out of your 1031 Exchange will result in the partial recognition
of your depreciation recapture and / or capital gain income tax liabilities.