Sibling battle over $32M lottery win lands in court

Comment #34

eddessaknight — Sun, 15 May 2011 20:56:07 GMT

100% in agreement Sully,

Again, it's not the money, but love of money above all else.....

Really too bad but the golden calf will rule in absence of love this punishing the entire family clan

There's always a Price to be paid......

EddessaKnight

Comment #33

ctech — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:24:35 GMT

My opinion is she is completely lying about the dollar or even talking to her brother about sharing the ticket she has no proof. With people like ths i don't know nothing you can do. Some people say this why they don't enter pools but lol seems you can enter one without even knowing

Comment #32

savagegoose — Fri, 06 May 2011 23:01:42 GMT

if she does get a cut it should be out of her brother half for taking her 1$. i dont see that the other guy had any clue into a contract her and her bro had , and he shouldnt be held to it.

Comment #31

ameriken — Fri, 06 May 2011 16:23:40 GMT

On many occasions I've had a friendly clerk say You're going to remember me if you win, aren't you?

Reading some of these stories makes me wonder, how many of these people we encounter everyday would go so far as to fabricate a story like Sis did? Supposing RJoh wins, and when this clerk learns who it was, he fabricates a story that RJoh promised him a share of the winnings? Then he finds an unscrupulous, greedy lawyer (I know that was redundant) who is willing to take it to court?

I trul... [ More ]

Comment #30

RJOh — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:11:56 GMT

If that doesn't works as a polite way of saying no then you just say HEL.....NO in a way they understand.

Comment #29

time*treat — Thu, 05 May 2011 20:14:55 GMT

That may work if they care about such things, but it's the GIVER that pays the gift tax, so the recipient doesn't have much reason to care about that.

Comment #28

RJOh — Thu, 05 May 2011 19:49:16 GMT

So far I have been asked 2 times at different gas stations by a clerk If you win, are you going to give me a million dollars? .

Sometimes I think the only reasons some clerks get jobs at gas stations that sell lots of lottery tickets is so they can get gratuities from lottery winners and maybe even get a share a jackpot if one of their customers get lucky. On many occasions I've had a friendly clerk say You're going to remember me if you win, aren't you? and I answered a friendly No, sorry I... [ More ]

Comment #27

savagegoose — Thu, 05 May 2011 10:32:37 GMT

there is a story out here in oz that a son won lotto and let parents manage hids money, you know cuz he was kinda stupid. and not smart with money

well they blew it all for him.

Comment #26

Guru101 — Thu, 05 May 2011 02:25:18 GMT

I realize there is a $1,000,000 lifetime exemption, but I still think it's messed up. If I won say $50,000,000 after taxes, I'd want to give $3,000,000 to my dad and $2,000,000 to my sister. That easily goes above the lifetime exemption. I guess the way to get around this would be by claiming as a group. The only thing is though, who's to say after I offer for us to claim as a group they won't say, Well it's $50,000,000, how come we can't just split it equally? . Even if they were to agree on th... [ More ]

Comment #25

GamerMom — Thu, 05 May 2011 02:00:00 GMT

Actually I think 13K is a good number, that way if anyone asks for a load of cash after I win I can pull the gift tax card

Comment #24

time*treat — Thu, 05 May 2011 01:30:54 GMT

The tweak is under the lifetime gift tax exemption.

Comment #23

Stack47 — Thu, 05 May 2011 00:27:29 GMT

Apparently one ticket costs at least $2 so that's when the real problem started. The two month gap where the numbers went unnoticed in her wallet is highly suspicious. If someone handed me a buck to split a $2 ticket and told me which numbers to play, I'd tell them to fill out a playslip or buy their own ticket. If it was to get a QP, they would have no idea of what numbers were on the ticket unless I told them.

It gets even more complicated because the barber was splitting the cost and owner... [ More ]

Comment #22

GamerMom — Wed, 04 May 2011 23:58:52 GMT

and that's the sucky part. I could marry anyone off the street and give them any of it without worrying about gift tax. hell with no prenup they would be entitled to it in the event of a divorce. but my mother....who labored over my birth, i cannot give any more than $13K or be subject to a rediculous tax. That's what people don't understand. It really needs to be changed. Blah blah blah estate tax I know WHY gift tax is in place but it needs to be tweaked just a bit to include mother/father/sib... [ More ]

Comment #21

Guru101 — Wed, 04 May 2011 23:47:26 GMT

This is a classic example of what the lottery can do to people, even your own family. There was a story about a mother that sued her son when her son won several million dollars. It's easy for a family member to fabricate a story. For example, a parent who's son or daughter wins the lottery might fabricate a story along the lines of He told me that if he ever won the lottery, he would split it with me or something similar to that. It could even go the other way around. That much money does crazy... [ More ]

Comment #20

RJOh — Wed, 04 May 2011 23:24:12 GMT

Nahas says she asked to split the ticket cost with Haddad and he agreed. She alleges that she asked her brother to put her name on the ticket once he had bought it. She then wrote down the numbers to be played on a slip of paper and put it in her wallet. Really, for paying a portion of the ticket cost she expected the ticket to have her name on it right after it was bought,. Who makes such a deal?

Haddad's mistake was ever allowing anyone even a sister to occasionally give him a dollar toward... [ More ]

Comment #19

Guru101 — Wed, 04 May 2011 22:44:29 GMT

If I won the lottery and someone manufactured a story and sued me for a portion of the winnings and was actually awarded the money, they wouldn't live to enjoy it. That's all I'm gonna say.

Comment #18

ameriken — Wed, 04 May 2011 15:07:25 GMT

Amen and hallelujah

Comment #17

dpoly1 — Wed, 04 May 2011 15:06:45 GMT

I ALWAYS purchase my own lottery ticket I don't promise anyone anything .............

................ that does not mean that I won't help anyone ..................

Comment #16

ameriken — Wed, 04 May 2011 15:05:44 GMT

Nahas says she asked to split the ticket cost with Haddad and he agreed. She alleges that she asked her brother to put her name on the ticket once he had bought it. She then wrote down the numbers to be played on a slip of paper and put it in her wallet.

Something doesn't smell right about sis's story. The guy has bought thousands of tickets, so he is accustomed to getting lots of tickets on a regular basis. But according to sis, on this one particular day she just so happened to decide to p... [ More ]

Comment #15

rundown99 — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:51:03 GMT

Another valuable lesson of life: ALWAYS BUY LOTTERY TICKETS ALONE

Comment #14

sully16 — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:48:13 GMT

Well said dr, Go it alone.

Comment #13

KY Floyd — Wed, 04 May 2011 05:04:35 GMT

I hope they are able to work this out.

Why would you hope they work it out? There's a chance there's an honest misunderstanding, but it sounds like one of them is trying to cheat the other out of $10 million dollars.

the part that makes it iffy for me is the sister insisting HER name be put on the lottery ticket

If you were part owner of a ticket wouldn't you want your name on it? Right now she doesn't appear to have any proof at all. If her name had been written on the ticket it wou... [ More ]

Comment #12

dr65 — Wed, 04 May 2011 03:30:40 GMT

If she paid him $1 to go in on it and wrote the numbers down for the winning ticket, isn't it ALL HERS??

Why isn't she making that claim??

He purchased many tickets that day - did her dollar entitle her to the multi-ticket chances he bought with

his friend for that draw? WHY did she only write one set of numbers down and not every single line they

played if she assumed she was in on the whole deal? How convenient to say - hey, I payed for that one,

so where's my cut?

People are... [ More ]

Comment #11

Boney526 — Wed, 04 May 2011 02:31:05 GMT

I see what you're saying, although legally, you're wrong.

Whoever buys the ticket owns it, regardless of who tipped them off the numbers. Of course if someone gave me the winning numbers, and didn't play themselves, I'd share but I wouldn't legally have to even if they thought of the numbers, I bought the ticket, not them.

Comment #10

OldSchoolPa — Wed, 04 May 2011 02:23:51 GMT

This right here illustrates the important lesson of those who choose to pool their money with others....never let another fly in on the soup...it just might drown all of them.

IMHO the sister is lying...I think I would have checked that right away, especially since she accompanied them to the ceremony. I smell garbage...and it is coming from the sis. I guess some people will do anything for more money.

Comment #9

HaveABall — Tue, 03 May 2011 23:07:08 GMT

I wonder if the two men who submitted the claim form had any WRITTEN lottery agreement. If yes, it could be important. If no ... stay tuned for dramatic and possibly surprising $$ re-distributions.

Comment #8

Stack47 — Tue, 03 May 2011 22:30:02 GMT

It wasn't until two months later that Nahas found the slip of paper with the winning numbers in her wallet, and realized she was owed one third of the proceeds from the winning ticket.

The barber wasn't part of any agreement so half the money is his regardless what Nahas realized she is owed. Maybe the court will ask why it took her two months to check the numbers she alleges was split with her brother for one drawing.

Comment #7

pumpi76 — Tue, 03 May 2011 20:18:54 GMT

dont even like to answer posts like these because people make it about race and where i live you should see...

25% to 35% of people s thoughts PER DAY is about RACE OR GENDER...cluttering people s mind with junk...

and about the race thing 98% of humans TAKE CREDIT for something someone did in the past or in another country thinking about the race issue, and i am like: WERE YOU THEEERE...see this, EVERYDAY...people take credit for what someone else did who has passed away and nobody approa... [ More ]

Comment #6

Guru101 — Tue, 03 May 2011 19:51:28 GMT

It basically comes down to one fact: no proof. The sister has no proof and therefore deserves nothing. Even if there was a verbal agreement, you just can't realy on a verbal agreement. Get it on paper. Basically it's a he said, she said. That's what it boils down to. And if the judge awards her any money, I just might quit playing myself.

Comment #5

pumpi76 — Tue, 03 May 2011 19:40:57 GMT

in cases like these a portion goes to the person who put the money/bought the ticket or if they want to split it is fine BUT the person who thought of the numbers gets the bigger share or more than the others because you could had had all the money you want and not win/miss in fact you could had had lots of money and MISS EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE AND OF THESE PLANET LIFE TOO...Well about HAVING all the money you want is an oxymoron...thats the correct thing to do...

now if the ticket costs: $50... [ More ]

Comment #4

GYM RICE — Tue, 03 May 2011 19:37:51 GMT

If this judge gives the sister anything, I'm quitting the lottery for ever. What did the sister do, give 33 1/3 cents to the brother to go play a set of numbers that he and his friend already were playing? 2 months later finding a set of numbers hand written in her pocket. She should be locked up.

Comment #3

GamerMom — Tue, 03 May 2011 19:20:17 GMT

therein lies the beauty of gambling...anyone can be a winner...a respected scientist or a handyman that dances around in garbage bags

Comment #2

nickey t — Tue, 03 May 2011 18:47:12 GMT

a part of me thinks he asked for 'trouble' when he gathered that load to collect HIS winnings .. he and his friend should have gone alone

then the other thing that gets me, is if the sister was indeed telling the truth, she should have calmly let her brother know of the numbers in her pocket and that agreement

but the part that makes it iffy for me is the sister insisting HER name be put on the lottery ticket .. for .50cents? that part alone makes me DISBELIEVE her case ...

if the broth... [ More ]

Comment #1

dallascowboyfan — Tue, 03 May 2011 17:45:18 GMT

sad...sad...sad... I hope they are able to work this out.

Sibling battle over $32M lottery win lands in court

Lottery Post — Tue, 03 May 2011 17:30:06 GMT

Take a barber, a handyman and the handyman's sister, add one lottery ticket and $32 million, and what do you have? A lawsuit and siblings no longer speaking to each other.

Sam Haddad and his longtime friend and barber Mike Dettorre won $32 million with a Lotto 6/49 ticket in June 2008. It made for a great story: Dettorre had been cutting Haddad's hair for more than 30 years and the men often bought tickets together, sticking them on the mirror in Dettorre's Old Ottawa South barber shop until... [ More ]