[herbie]

Used to joke that if I ever won huge, I'd give my ex $1 million just because. And to watch her blow it all on lawyers trying to claim it ALL....
When my Dad passed 7 or 8 years after we divorced she called to express her sympathy. And in the same breath to tell me half of what I got was hers. A real let down for her, I didn't get anything. It all went to Mom... and she outlived the ex.

[Strutz]

0:

Lotto - Get packed.jpg

[martin14]

Strutz Strutz:

.....

+5 for posting the TRUTH !!!

[Zipperfish]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Even if you win after you separate, she still gets half. "I want half, Eddie!"

Doesn’t seem that’s typically the case in Ontario:

$1:

As long as the win takes place after the date of separation, the prize money remains in the hands of the person playing the lottery, she says.

“In Ontario, it really boils down to what is the situation as of the date of separation — that’s when the property is valued and divided,” Robinson, of Shulman Law Firm, tells AM 640.

“Anything that’s going to happen after that is then presumptively going to belong to each particular spouse and not be joint property. But of course there are always going to be exceptions, or ways in which lottery winnings after separation could be considered in other ways, and it is very fact-specific."

http://www.advocatedaily.com/separated- ... share.html

The spouse gets in if there's kids involved. If you win a 6 million, they calculate your annual salary based on investing of that money at a rate of return of x%. So at 5%, your annual income would be assumed to go up by $300,000 per year and you'd have to pay that. Common knowledge out here, at least for those of us paying child support.

[raydan]

Either the boyfriend's being an ass, or she is... of course, there's always the possibility that they both are.

[herbie]

Seeing as how I read months ago that when she got home he'd packed and moved out, I would guess he's the douchebag. As will the judge.