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Stack47

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Apr 24, 2013, 12:28 am

Quote: Originally posted by noise-gate on Apr 23, 2013
Stack- Key word...... " her ticket"

I don't know and can only go by what I read.

"Last year's Mega Millions statement about the winning ticket said, "It was actually Orender's mother, Etta Urquhart, who took his $2 and bought two Mega Millions tickets at Stuarts Oak Street Mobil in Bakersfield."

https://www.lotterypost.com/news/245837

Whomever really owned that ticket should make anyone stop and think before "allowing a trusted family member to sign".
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Apr 24, 2013, 12:51 am

Quote: Originally posted by helpmewin on Apr 23, 2013
i didn't read that whole story but i just wondering how someone could do that to their mom, shoot that mom would probably gave her boy anything he wanted very sad.

Apparently she didn't like how he was spending his, hers, or their (pick one) money and sued him.

They settled out of court and probably one of those strange stories we'll never hear what really happened.
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Apr 24, 2013, 12:55 am

Quote: Originally posted by Stack47 on Apr 24, 2013
I don't know and can only go by what I read.

"Last year's Mega Millions statement about the winning ticket said, "It was actually Orender's mother, Etta Urquhart, who took his $2 and bought two Mega Millions tickets at Stuarts Oak Street Mobil in Bakersfield."

https://www.lotterypost.com/news/245837

Whomever really owned that ticket should make anyone stop and think before "allowing a trusted family member to sign".

Stack- l did not post this question with this case in mind.l just thought that there is a possibility that this could happen to any lottery winner. For instance- what if one won the Lottery and had a " major stroke"- heaven forbid.Sure you have an entire year to collect, but the money could come in handy right now,Think of the Hospital bills, Convalescence- the works. You know that its gonna add up, problem is: One cannot sign- so who does? Obviously someone whom you can trust or does one say " back off family- l am going to ride this baby out- no one touch my ticket".
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Apr 24, 2013, 1:25 am

Quote: Originally posted by noise-gate on Apr 23, 2013
Answer: you injured your hand & fingers on the job.You asking a "trusted" family member Not unless you feel there is no such thing as a trusted family member.
Its been said " Money reveals the true nature of a person".if you can't trust family whose left?-answer that.

Don't you mean all of your limbs were severed, and every orifice in your body closed up? How hard is it to hold a pen or pencil and make an X?
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Apr 24, 2013, 3:36 am

if i won the 1 way flight to mars, and while on my way won the lotto. i still would have doubts letting my family sign. but then that about ccoveres my only situation i see me allowing it.

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Apr 24, 2013, 3:57 am

No I would not trust a family member or anybody else for that matter with a winning ticket. I know better. I am adopted and wouldn't trust my adoptive nephew who lives with me, as far as I can throw him.. He is too <snip> greedy..

That is why I am looking for another place to live.

I would sign the ticket first, which I do as soon as I buy one, and cash in the ticket, not right away though, and finally get my life moving in the right direction..

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Apr 24, 2013, 6:51 am

Quote: Originally posted by noise-gate on Apr 23, 2013
Answer: you injured your hand & fingers on the job.You asking a "trusted" family member Not unless you feel there is no such thing as a trusted family member.
Its been said " Money reveals the true nature of a person".if you can't trust family whose left?-answer that.

Answer money changes the most trusted person in your life....even if I couldnt use one hand I'd use the other...I'd stick a pen between my toes if Id had to....You cant trust people in situations that they'd never been in before...You dont know how they will act
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Apr 24, 2013, 7:47 am

No, why play?
Stack47

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Apr 24, 2013, 12:48 pm

Quote: Originally posted by noise-gate on Apr 24, 2013
Stack- l did not post this question with this case in mind.l just thought that there is a possibility that this could happen to any lottery winner. For instance- what if one won the Lottery and had a " major stroke"- heaven forbid.Sure you have an entire year to collect, but the money could come in handy right now,Think of the Hospital bills, Convalescence- the works. You know that its gonna add up, problem is: One cannot sign- so who does? Obviously someone whom you can trust or does one say " back off family- l am going to ride this baby out- no one touch my ticket".

It comes down to "who can you really trust" and her husband was there when she apparently asked her son to sign the ticket.

Your scenario does create a different dilemma because if the winner can't sign the ticket, they couldn't sign legal trust forms either and have a lawyer validate the ticket.
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Apr 24, 2013, 2:57 pm

If it came down to me needing a family member to collect the money out of necessity, I would 100% trust them(siblings and parent). Aside from the trust that we have in each other, we're all religious people. Never in a million years would any of them betray me like that.
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Apr 24, 2013, 7:03 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Masone on Apr 24, 2013
If it came down to me needing a family member to collect the money out of necessity, I would 100% trust them(siblings and parent). Aside from the trust that we have in each other, we're all religious people. Never in a million years would any of them betray me like that.

Yep my dad. Wouldn't even hesitate.
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Apr 24, 2013, 7:19 pm

Heck no, I wasn't born yesterday

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