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Posted: April 17, 2007, 7:39 pm - IP Logged Bottom

Wouldn't the spouse only get half if you already claimed it? Lets say you won a big jackpot, but you haven't claimed it yet, and you get a divorce, then you claimed it. I mean, if you haven't claimed it yet, there wouldn't be anything to show a huge income accumulation. Just keep the ticket hidden until the divorce is over?

Or they could get their butts hauled back to court (and maybe jail?) for attempting to conceal assets.  If you live in a state where there's no anonymity, you know the ex is gonna find out.

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Posted: April 17, 2007, 8:01 pm - IP Logged Bottom Top

Or they could get their butts hauled back to court (and maybe jail?) for attempting to conceal assets.  If you live in a state where there's no anonymity, you know the ex is gonna find out.

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Posted: April 17, 2007, 8:34 pm - IP Logged Bottom Top

Wouldn't the spouse only get half if you already claimed it? Lets say you won a big jackpot, but you haven't claimed it yet, and you get a divorce, then you claimed it. I mean, if you haven't claimed it yet, there wouldn't be anything to show a huge income accumulation. Just keep the ticket hidden until the divorce is over?

A California woman tried that a few years ago.  She was in an office pool that won the lottery and since her husband wasn't working and she didn't want to support him, she divorced him before he found out about her lottery winnings.  She was fine for a year until he found out about it (she was doing too good without him) so he went back to court to redo their divorce settlement and the judge was so mad at her deceit that he ordered her to give it all to her ex-husband.  I think she appealed that decision. 

Once you choose a mate and make it legal, they earn half of what you accumulate during the marriage by just being around.

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Posted: April 17, 2007, 8:38 pm - IP Logged Bottom Top

Do you think anyone would sue their spouse if their spouse won a jackpot immediately after the divorce?

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Posted: April 17, 2007, 8:49 pm - IP Logged Bottom Top

Do you think anyone would sue their spouse if their spouse won a jackpot immediately after the divorce?

Why not, people who only shared a booty call have sued why not a spouse?

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Posted: April 17, 2007, 10:37 pm - IP Logged Bottom Top

A $10 million lottery windfall brought an estranged Vancouver couple back together.

But eight years later, the marriage wound up in divorce court with a sticky issue to be resolved: What should be done with $2.2 million in an account the husband claimed was for his personal use?

In granting their divorce last week, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Heather Holmes ruled the $2.2 million must be split between Minh Kien Le, 58, and his ex-wife, Mai Huong Cao, 55.

The couple escaped with their two young children by boat from their native Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975.

They settled in Terrace and later moved to Vancouver and scraped together enough money to buy a house on Fraser Street.

Le was laid off in 1996 and did odd jobs for cash until he became a multimillionaire in the Dec. 23, 1999 Super 7 draw.

After his win, Le gifted his three children $1.5 million each.

Together, the couple built a new house on West 59th Avenue and put it in Cao's name.

Both sides agreed that interest from a joint account containing $2.2 million paid household expenses of about $115,000 a year and should be divided equally.

But Le considered $2.2 million in an account in his name alone to be his, although he used some of the money for family purposes.

That was enough to satisfy the law on splitting assets.

"Challenged about how he could have paid from the joint account all the family expenses set out in his financial statement, [Le] responded that he would withdraw amounts from the second fund and place them in his own checking account as necessary to pay family or other expenses," said the judge, noting that amounted to paying the expenses from the second fund.

In Re  the  above  case  ......  this  case  is  not  subject  to  US laws ;

the  above case  would  be  in  each  state  court  then after  5  years   appealed to  federal  district  court  and  about $$ 265,000  in  legall fees  latter ,Smash before  reaching  the  US SUPREAM  COURT  if  the  court  would  hear  it ....The  best  deal  he  could  have  expected  was  50-50  :

He  could  take  the  money  back  from  the  kids  legaly  but  not  from  his  ex-wife  ...Evilbut  whats  this  old  bag  gonna  do  withPukeso  much  money ...she  will  most  likely  get  the  best  outfits  money  can  buy  start  sleeping  with any  one  who  wanted  her  then  those  other  men  -  will  end  up  pumping  her  for  the  loot  she  stole  from  her  husband;

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Posted: April 18, 2007, 4:49 am - IP Logged Bottom Top

Do you think anyone would sue their spouse if their spouse won a jackpot immediately after the divorce?

I think it depends on the divorce agreement.  If you have children and child support is based on income, then it makes sense that the State would increase the child support.  That might be automatic in some cases.

I don't think a ex-wife or ex-husband is entitled to any money won after the divorce is final unless the winner was behind in his/her obligations.  Let's say 2 people agree to payoff their debts.  If one falls behind because he used the money to gamble, I'd say the other has a pretty good shot at collecting some of the prize money if negligence could be proven.

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Posted: April 18, 2007, 4:02 pm - IP Logged Bottom Top

If the CA woman had won herself (instead of as part as an office pool), kept it quiet and then divorced her husband (and waited the six months to become final) BEFORE cashing in her lotto ticket - Would that have been a better plan in what she was trying to do/get away with?

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Posted: April 18, 2007, 9:00 pm - IP Logged Bottom Top

There probably are spouses that have gotten away with cheating their exes out of a fair share of what was accumulated during their time together but only the ones that got caught ever made the news.

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Posted: April 19, 2007, 1:20 am - IP Logged Bottom Top

If the CA woman had won herself (instead of as part as an office pool), kept it quiet and then divorced her husband (and waited the six months to become final) BEFORE cashing in her lotto ticket - Would that have been a better plan in what she was trying to do/get away with?

Unless you live someplace where your spouse isn't entitled to a share of the assets accumulated during the marriage, one of the routine parts of a divorce is an accounting of all assets in order to determine an equitable division of those assets. A winning lottery ticket is an asset, so it has to be disclosed. As in the case noted above, attempting to conceal assets is a good way to lose them.