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Exactly why I posted the link, i wanted it to be clear.  I'm still not taking any chances w/ something like 45%..plus it give me an excuse NOT to give more than 13k, catch my drift?  The kind of people who come to you for $$ aren't going to be up on that sort of thing.

I could have sworn i read on here somewhere you could not sign a ticket in florida with another person.  Thanks for clearing that up for me  :)

I plan on giving a little bit of my winnings to certain family members.

It has nothing to do with whether or not they'll allow a trust to claim a prize, but since a trust is legal entity entitled to own property I don't see how they can prevent a trust from claiming a prize. What the lottery can do is make rules on anonymity and publicity. Just because the ticket is owned by a trust doesn't mean the lottery can't require that an individual with a legal interest attends a press conference and has their name released to the public. Of course most trusts that claim a lottery prize were formed after the ticket became a winning ticket. A rigid interpretation of the law would mean that a trust presenting the ticket therefore took ownership of a ticket worth far more than $1, which could potentially have serious tax consequences, but so far the IRS doesn't seem to have taken an interest in pursuing that idea. The other thing the lottery can do is refuse to write multiple checks to multiple owners, but that has nothing to do with how many owners share an interest in the ticket.

"I could have sworn i read on here somewhere you could not sign a ticket in florida with another person."

I don't know what it says on tickets in Florida, but on NY tickets (under the line for signing) it says "Under penalty of perjury, I declare that I am the owner of this ticket...". If there are multiple owners and only one owner signs it with their own name, then they're committing perjury.

I'll share it with the world.

How would the government know if you bought a car for someone or gave money to someone?

well there are taxes to be paid on the car every year...

I'll set-up a trust for each person I give money too! This way I can state how much will be given to them from the trust and in what intervals, (once a year or every six months) and of course I'll have the trust subtract the correct amount of Federal & State tax withheld from the disbursement of said funds to them for that tax year!

Not only do I plan to share with immediate family members, but also with neice, nephews, adult stepchildren, adult stepgrandchildren, etc.   About twenty of them.  At my age, I'd be a fool not to.  There is no way I would spend that amount of money in my lifetime even if I lived to 100.  I just have no desire to live lavishly.  Nicely, yes, but not lavishly.  So it would be either leaving it to family or to charity.  By arranging things in such a way as to avoid paying excess amounts in gift and estate taxes, the whole relationship could have a major uptick in living standard and there would still be millions for my favorite charities should I be fortunate enough to win something as big as a MM over $50 million.

Taking care of my kids is first priority. Sharing with the other 50% of the kids dna is a given. The rest of the buzzards I call relatives probably not. If they were to find out I won a major jackpot and called with a sob story, I would tell them to sell everything they own and use the money on what they expect me to pay for. Since I know they would balk at the idea of liquidating everything they own, I would kindly point out to them that if they are not willing to risk everything they have worked for on themselves, then why should I risk what I have worked and paid for on them. If they don't think they are worth it then they aren't.

My general feeling is that I would assign my only brother a 10% stake in the winning ticket as I believe this would alieviate the "gift tax" issue and he could then just pay his own taxes.  Kind of like Lottery pools each get a percentage of the winning pot.  For others I wanted to help I would give them the maximum amount allowed per year to avoid the gift taxes.

Come on BIG Winner!!  Daddy wants to help some people!!!

"I would assign my only brother a 10% stake in the winning ticket"

Assigning somebody a 10% stake in the winning ticket is exactly the same as giving them 10% of the prize that was won with the ticket. If you want to avoid gift tax implications you have to give them a share of the ticket before it becomes a winning ticket. If the person you give the share to is a relative or friend, you should be prepared to prove that the gift was made before the drawing.