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Wife sues husband for share of secret lottery winnings

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Lotterologist
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Posted: November 29, 2007, 3:44 pm - IP Logged Bottom

 helping the poor, the sick, and the orphans, more often than not, you will find that's just part of the act 

Faye Dunaway was always one of my favorite actors (Chinatown, Bonnie and Clyde, Eyes of Laura Mars, Network) but when she made Mommy Dearest I couldn't stop laughing.  I felt so guilty since it was a movie about child abuse, but it was such a bad movie.  Anyway, regarding your statement, even if it is "part of the act" who cares?  I doubt if Danny Thomas built Saint Jude's for the publicity or Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward started the Hole in the Wall camps to get attention. However, if someone wants to build me a home and give me $10 million and all I have to do is pose with him on the cover of People Magazine..call the paparazzi!!

LOL! LOL
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Posted: November 30, 2007, 8:00 am - IP Logged Bottom Top

this is just another sad case of... me not winning the lotto :P

i look at all lotteries as a  50-50  chance,

either i win or i don't
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Posted: December 14, 2007, 9:59 pm - IP Logged Bottom Top

I like your philosophy vulcanclassic15 but you have a girlfriend and I have a wife. I don't think your girlfriend has any claim to your winnings.

I once had a wife, She won $250,000 one time on lotto & I lost count how much she won at the slots over the years, some times she would give me a few hundred or just treat for dinner, but I never asked for any of it. When we had our divorce I left with what I owned, she left with what she owned, we never even question anything about the money, it was her money that bought the ticket, she won, her name was on the ticket, not mine.

I find the ones that question about money all the time are only after the money or dont want to imporve them selfs to work a job that they can make a decent paycheck. I go to vagas often (sister lives there, no need to pay hotels) my girlfriend does not ask how much I spent, won or lost & she does not need to tell me how much she has spent, won or lost. As long as all are bills get paid, we both set aside $2000 a month for home improvements & vacations, I dont care what she does with the rest of her money, I have my own money, she has never asked how much parts for my old cars have cost (most of my winnings) & I dont ask how much her new ring, ear rings or what ever she buys cost.

Bottom line........ if she nags about the money, she does not make enough to suport her own habits or lives outside her means. I think this lady better start a school for beauty queens & start makeing her own damm money & mabe she could buy a few tickets & win more than him!

GET A JOB & LEAVE HIS MONEY A LOAN!!

Hello there, I would like to first say that I have been reading these forums for about 2 years now (off and on) and it has been interesting, educational and sometimes downright entertaining. Smile  Tonight after reading these comments I am so disappointed I felt compelled to register and weigh in with my 2 cents worth.

First of all, vulcan - your ex wife winning all that money and maybe giving you a couple hundred, wow that is sad, but then you follow up about your life with your girlfriend and how you guys split the bills and EACH set aside $2000 a month for home improvement and vacations.  It is obvious to me that you guys are in the class of people that just play for fun and extra money is just that, extra.  Right now your slush fund is our monthly income and we haven't had a vacation in 4 years.  It has been said that the majority of lottery players are the poor, and in one inspired post I read recently that buying a lottery ticket is buying hope.  That is certainly how it is for most.

The comments I have been reading about marriage in this topic are just disheartening.  My husband and I have been married for 5 years, we came together with our own debts and then created more due to health problems.  Between us we have 5 children.  Occasionally we treat ourselves to a lottery ticket.  Right now he is the wage earner for our household as it is not financially sound for me to work while leaving the kids in daycare (which is greatly overpriced).  If I am the one to purchase the ticket, it would, according to the majority of the posters on this topic, be his because it was with his money.  In our world, it would be OURS.  Anything that he and I do, separately or not has a joint effect on both of us.  It would be without question that if one of those tickets were to ever be for a large win, we would consider that OUR windfall.  He would never say, well that's it, this is my ride out of here and leave nor would I.  We have always prided ourselves on the strength of our marriage and our family ties, even during the hard times which we are struggling through right now.

With all that being said, the fact that this Ramdass guy left his wife after concealing his win just goes to show that there was not a strong relationship there.  Some people get married for the wrong reasons.  Personally, I think the whole thing is a sad statement about the state of marriage in this country.
 
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