Jury rules that estranged brothers must split $1M lottery prize

Comment #21

One-Day — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 18:32:21 GMT

Fair outcome. When it comes to money, I don't even trust my shadow. Family is usually the first to screw you up. Money is usually thicker than blood for some people.

Comment #20

1977 — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 04:46:16 GMT

YEP.....I agree Whole heartly...then you can share if you want too

Comment #19

Goteki54 — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 20:09:39 GMT

This is so pathetic. Two brothers who hate each over because of a lottery ticket. Blood is suppose to be thicker then water, but I guess in some cases it's not thicker then greed or green.

Comment #18

mypiemaster — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 01:01:51 GMT

Yep, I hope the judge made that knucklehead pay his brother's legal fees also, for being so stupid.

Comment #17

KY Floyd — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 23:53:48 GMT

lord only knows what the attorney's fees were.

Unless the brother filing the lawsuit is a real moron the fees should be pretty reasonable. It's probably a few hours going over the story, maybe a bit of time while waiting for the trial, and trying to negotiate a settlement, and a few hours for a short trial. Call it 20 hours at a very generous $350 and it would have cost the winning brother 7 grand to get his 350 grand after taxes. Would have been nice if he got it for free, but he's way ahea... [ More ]

Comment #16

TheGameGrl — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 23:32:28 GMT

Oral agreements are by far difficult to win in courts. Its a he said she said scenario. yet leave it to the misguided folks of Cumberland county where the IQ might reach 80 on a sunny day.

I am not for or against the persons, I am against a legal system that is setup contingent on:

where you live, will be contingent on how the verdict comes back.

the lawyers in these cases typically get a percentage of the verdict amount which is taken Before the money is dispersed to the winning part... [ More ]

Comment #15

dpoly1 — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 23:12:56 GMT

Always play alone

Comment #14

Stack47 — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:22:17 GMT

And even the poor lawyers are making a nice living.

Comment #13

TNPATL — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:47:21 GMT

Probably won't be much to share after paying legal fees.

Comment #12

shadowlady — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:56:00 GMT

The last time I used a lawyer, I was given the choice of an hourly fee, or a 30% of 'gross' fee.

Yes, it is sad that the one brother would not split the money, but large amounts of money really plays with people's mind sometimes.

Now if only I can win one of the large prizes, and see if it plays with my mind.

Comment #11

ThatScaryChick — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 16:11:56 GMT

Too bad Meehan couldn't do the right thing and share the jackpot with his brother in the first place. It's funny how he could take 20 dollars from his brother, but not give him half the winnings like Sharp deserved.

Comment #10

sully16 — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:43:07 GMT

Very sad.

Comment #9

noise-gate — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 05:30:41 GMT

What Meehan was attempting to do is screw his half brother over! He was an idiot to think that the court would side with him. His attorney probably knew that going in as well but figured that he had a fool for a client, why give him a heads up that his going to lose. Attempt to put up a fight for your client knowing you going to make out like a bandit when the smoke clears.

Attorneys don't carry briefcases for nothing- its meant to carry off the client's money.

Comment #8

BDUB211 — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 05:29:44 GMT

Well, there are no state taxes on lottery winnings in Pennsylvania. So take out 25% off the top for the Feds, then I believe, it would be an additional 15% come the following April, so that leaves roughly $637,500, split down the middle is $318,750. Now lord only knows what the attorney's fees were.

Comment #7

mypiemaster — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 01:09:55 GMT

Fools making rich lawyers richer.

Comment #6

DDOH937 — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 22:42:42 GMT

So after one year, taxes and massive LEGAL FEES, they each got how much?????? Quite silly.

Comment #5

HaveABall — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 22:37:26 GMT

, Get paid, who knows who was telling the truth. Who was already financially okay, and who wasn't.

I still don't know, from these articles, if the already claimed, winning lottery scratch-off ticket was $1M cash or merely $1M annuity value paid over 20 or so years.

I also wonder how much each lawyer will charge, and this court's fees. Cheers everyone, there is lovely weather outside my window

Comment #4

Nikkicute — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 22:34:45 GMT

From what I read in the story there was no confusion, he knew he was suppose to share

that ticket with his half brother but decided to keep it all to himself.

There was only two people involved, not much confusion, just share, that's simple

Comment #3

Get paid — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 22:27:50 GMT

To avoid confusion,buy ur own ticket,keep it simple.

Comment #2

Nikkicute — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 22:26:44 GMT

Just another case of GREED!!

The greedy one didn't even pay for the ticket, his half brother gave him the $20

oops! a typo:

See Half brothers fight over million dollar lottery ticket, Lottery Post, July 16, 2016.

Comment #1

maringoman — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:49:54 GMT

Most people would actually be more than happy to share this kind of bread with their brother especially if they were drinking together and playing together at the time of win. Some people are just strange. So sad.

Jury rules that estranged brothers must split $1M lottery prize

Lottery Post — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:34:57 GMT

Over a year of legal bickering ended Wednesday afternoon, but it appeared neither brother feuding over a jackpot lottery ticket was ready to move on and sing Kumbaya together.

After a two-day trial in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, court, a jury decided two Mechanicsburg-area brothers, Charles Thomas Meehan and Ira Sharp, would split a $1 million lottery ticket straight down the middle.

Sharp sued Meehan, his half-brother, for half of the prize he said they won together at Johnny Joe's b... [ More ]