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Do You Tell?Reply
A past jackpot winner could sue and probably win if the 20, 26, or 30 year payoffs was less than the advertised jackpot they won. The Mega Millions site says the current estimated jackpot is $17 million and the cash option is $10.4 million. A cash option is exactly that and if you want the full amount you'll have to wait 25 years. Do you really believe if somebody matches all 6 numbers tonight they would say had I known I'd only win $10 million, I would have never played ? When people buy a l
May 23, 2008, 7:12 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

so exactly what WOULD you do with all that $$Reply
I always wondered that as well. I like the idea of CDARs. Anyway, I was also wondering, (anyone) When you win the lottery and you have to sign the back of the ticket, would you sign it in the name of the Trust or LLC that you will be using to claim the winnings or would you sign it in your own name? I was just researching and one site said to have an attorney claim the winnings under the Trust/LLC's name. But no one can read that legal jargon, how would you know what you are really signing And I
May 2, 2008, 4:45 pm - lottocalgal - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lp Members Will Automatically Share w/each other!Reply
I worked with a guy who would tell everybody when the Lotto was high that he would share with them if he won the jackpot. It sounded like a nice gesture until two other employees split a $20 million jackpot. That was over 10 years ago and he still says they cheated him out of his share. He never won a jackpot so we'll never know if he would share, but that wasn't his intentions; his nice gesture was meant to form an unwanted partnership with everybody he knew that bought Lotto tickets. People
Mar 20, 2008, 8:27 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

buying lottery ticketsReply
The case involving Anna Nicole Smith was different, Mike. She was a person who sought out fame and attention. She was mainly famous for being infamous. She was buried in the Bahamas because she lived there when she died. Therefore, her mother had no say in her burial. I didn't really follow the case closely, but I couldn't possibly miss it without keeping the TV off for a month. You can't split your winnings anyway unless you can prove that there was a prior contract, at least that's the way
Mar 15, 2008, 3:42 pm - justxploring - Lottery Discussion Forum

Man wins, then loses, then wins lotteryNews Story
An Australian retiree won a $1.8 million lottery prize, then lost it, and then won it again Wednesday through a court ruling. Werner Reinhold bought the lottery ticket at a newsstand in Australia's largest city of Sydney on Sept. 19, 1995. His original ticket did not print correctly, so he asked for a new one, which turned out to be the winner. But when Reinhold, now 73, went back to claim the $1.8 million jackpot, he discovered that the replacement ticket had been canceled, not the mispri
Feb 1, 2008, 9:50 am - Todd - Lottery News

Should tax payers be paid back after a winReply
The question implies that the taxpayers would see a cent of this returned money. It should never have been taken to begin with. An involuntary fee, tax, or whatever-new-name-it's-given is not assistance, it's theft. It's theft if I steal your grandchild's new bicycle and give it to some kid down the street who N E E D S it more. It's theft if the gov't takes your money in the form of higher property taxes, converts (ahem ... conversion) it into a welfare check, and gives the check to someo
Dec 8, 2007, 1:15 pm - time*treat - Lottery Discussion Forum

Wife sues husband for share of secret lottery winningsReply
Quite often folks lose sight of the fact that marriage is a union between two people that carries a legal status with personal and financial obligations. Once the union is formed, the law holds both parties to those obligations via some type of domestic relations law(s). Not only are those obligations relevant during the marriage but also after separation and divorce. When someone tries to shirk his/her legal responsibility to the marriage, the courts have to often step in to determine the exten
Nov 22, 2007, 12:53 pm - LottoChica23 - Lottery News

New York Lottery won't pay $25,000 for taped-up scratch-off ticketReply
She needs to produce all parts of every ticket she bought. Most likely, one of the other tickets will be torn exactly like this one. Here's what I think happened. She got home with the tickets and scratched a small portion to show it wasn't a winner and tore them in half. Her husband then tried to scratch them completely,but, put the two wrong pieces together. When they saw that it looked like a winner, greed took over. The lawyer, living up to their sleazy reputation, did not use due dili
Oct 24, 2007, 7:24 am - HiYoSilver - Lottery News

questions on pools & past experiencesReply
It's a unique situation and it could create lots of confusion if the next of kin found the winning ticket and cashed it being unaware it was part of a pool. What if the ticket holder hid the ticket in a safe place and nobody could find it? On the other side of the coin if a member of the pool died, that too could create some problems if they owed money to the pool and the pool won the jackpot. had everyone sign a agreement contract with all the necessary details. Good idea but there
Oct 14, 2007, 3:31 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

questions on pools & past experiencesReply
gogirl My concept of a pool is that all the tickets are pooled, and any prizes are pooled. If someone pases away, the number of ways the pool is split just reduces by one, or (assuming there was a prize) that person's family gets their share - the contract should be written up that way prior to any tickets being played. In casinos, if anyone dies on a table (it's happened) or slot machine, whatever coins or credits (slots) or chips that person had goes into their estate. I want t
Oct 14, 2007, 1:18 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum