Wife Sues Husband for Lottery Winnings

[Rhino]

LOTTO TROUBLE

Wife's at a loss to find husband after he wins the lottery

A former beauty queen is suing her airline-mechanic husband, claiming he tried to hide his lottery jackpot from her.

BY EVAN S. BENN
ebenn@MiamiHerald.com

The clues trickled in that Donna Campbell's husband was hiding something from her.

Arnim Ramdass started to keep the television off at all times, then he disconnected their phone line. But the ah-ha! moment came when Campbell thumbed through the mail at their Miramar house and saw a postcard: Congratulations on the purchase of your new home.

Campbell, knowing her husband was a habitual lottery player, fired up her computer and Googled ``Ramdass and lotto.''

The first hit was a Florida Lottery press release about a pool of 17 airline mechanics who won a $19 million jackpot this summer.

''Here's a guy who for years has spent marital money on the lottery and at casinos, and he's always lost,'' said Bruce Baldwin, Campbell's attorney. ``And now he finally wins, and he's trying to keep it from his wife. That's pretty low.''

Campbell is suing her husband for her share of the jackpot....

...For as long as she's known him, Campbell said Ramdass and his co-workers pooled their money every Wednesday and Friday for the twice-weekly Lotto drawings. On June 20, they collected $220 and sent one of the workers to a Pinecrest Kwik Stop to buy tickets.

They let the computer pick the numbers, as always. One of the tickets matched all six numbers -- 6, 31, 34, 44, 45, 49 -- and the group of blue-collar airport workers suddenly saw a lot of green....http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/313117.html

[Madbomber]

LOL Just saw that on the news. My wife would kill me if I pulled something like that, was a good laugh though.

MB

[BuckeyeMike]

I'm afeered ol' Ramdass is gonna git this one rammed up his ass.

I think Ida changed my name......to BILL or JOHN..anything but ARNIM!!!!!!

[TeenageRepublican]

Wtf... This is a funny but bizzah story.

[Riverboat]

Florida is under the common law property system. As such, "property acquired by a married person during marriage is the property of that person
separately, unless the person agrees with his or her spouse to hold the
property jointly."

Clearly, the husband had no intention of agreeing to allow joint ownership. It seems she had no recourse but to laywer up and get what's fair. If you ask me, fair is 80% and one free shot to the dolt's skull with a frying pan, roller pin, baseball bat, crowbar, or whatever she feels competent at swinging.

Dumbass.

[Wolfcounsel]

Ramdass is an appropriate name. I agree with BuckeyeMike. He's going to wind up with more than money rammed up his ass, community property or whatever.

[Venus de Smilo]

LOL! This dude is so toast! :rotflmbo:

Half of $19mil wasn't enough for an airline baggage worker. What a colossal idiot (and jerk).

This pretty much told the wife everything she needed to know about her beloved hubby. See ya' in court, you moron!

[Gonzo67]

Half of $19mil wasn't enough for an airline baggage worker. What a colossal idiot (and jerk).


Actually, his cut (before the wife takes her 90%) was only just over 1 mil. It was a group of 17 airline mechanics sharing a 19 mil jackpot.

[PaulRevere]

I think I heard on TV that he netted $600K or something out of it. I can't think of why he would do such a thing and think that he could get away with it. Did his marriage mean so little to him?

Unless his wife was a shopaholic spendthrift, I can't imagine how he could rationalize such a maneuver.

[Aaron]

If I won the money, I would invest it right away in stocks, annuities, etc. Make money off money, common sense. No reason to hide it from the wife unless he plans on divorcing her or something.

[Incident_command]

Airline mechanic huh, those guys are a seedy bunch:evilgrin:

[Lazarus]

So she can't find the money, huh? With a name like Ramdass, I believe I'd start out with a court-ordered body-cavity search... :biggrin:

Hell, I don't blame her... I might just sue him, myself!:D

[Lazarus]

Actually, his cut (before the wife takes her 90%)...:rotflmbo::thumb:

...was only just over 1 mil. It was a group of 17 airline mechanics sharing a 19 mil jackpot.Actually, if the $19 million was the gross jackpot, and they took it in a lump sum (as most winners of these lotteries do), it would be a significantly reduced amount... The $600k figure doesn sound too far off...