Paperwork will be filed, some of it will go to the IRS (or equivalent in your country) and someone, at a minimum the tax man, will be asking questions. People don’t just come into that much money at once, and you bet the government has some rule that says they get a cut of the tax on it and are salivating as they read the paperwork.
Exact details vary by country, but largely this is what I would expect to have happen.
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