Wife Discovers Husband is Lottery Winner Thanks to Google
The list of advantages that search engines like Google and Yahoo offer are nearly endless. The list of disadvantages is starting to become endless though too, with one of them being the loss of anonymity. “Google” your name or the name of a friend or family member and you could potentially come up with all kinds of information. One perfect example of this comes out of Miami where a woman is suing her husband for her share of lottery winnings after he won and didn’t bother to tell her. How’d she find out he won? She Googled his name!
Whether this situation shows the advantages or disadvantages of search engines, I’ll leave up to you. There are multiple things I see wrong with this whole story but that’s besides the point. According to the Miami Herald, the woman thought something was fishy after her husband disconnected their phone and kept the TV off. He was obviously hoping to keep her from hearing his name announced on the news as one of seventeen airline mechanics who pooled together to buy a ticket and won $19 million dollars back in June. When a postcard came in the mail congratulating the man for the purchase of a new house, she turned to Google to see what she could find.
She found exactly what she was looking for – a press release from the Florida Lottery stating that he had won. Ever since the woman confronted her husband about his winnings, he disappeared and hasn’t been seen since, not even at work. A co-worker of his at American Airlines said he took a leave of absence and hasn’t returned. The group of winners took the one lump-sum payment which gave them about $600,000 each before taxes which doesn’t leave the man a whole lot to live off of if he plans to stay in hiding for a while.
Thanks to Google, Donna Campbell found out she’s a lottery winner too…
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Wow, that’s pretty funny. But if they’re married, aren’t all their assets shared? Was he hiding it in a swiss bank account or something? So I guess they’re divorced or getting divorced?
The wife told the Miami Herald that she’d be filing for divorce, eventually. If they ever find the guy to serve the papers to, that is!
Nothing more than a gold digger. She’s a greedy person, that’s for sure…
THiS PISsses me OFF so much, how is the WIfe entitled to the lottery money. I mean just because she is married to him doesn’t mean she has to get a share in everything he makes or gets. Its not fair, i blame America law for this.
I mean a man or woman can bust his life in making something for himself and after a divorce, he/she get a part of the other spouses money and property.
the resolution of the problem relies on the law governing their marriage and their pre nuptial agreement.. ordinarily if the agreement is Conjugal, then whatever is acquired by the husband during the marriage using the conjugal funds belong to the conjugal property and therefore also belongs to the wife.
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I didn’t hear anything about a pre-nup, but even without one, I think she is still entitled to a part of his winnings because they were married.
You folks are obviously not married.
“…nothing more than a gold digger.”
That might apply if he was rich when she met him, then a pre-nup would apply. But she married him for love, when he was just a broke schmuck like the rest of us.
“…just because she is married to him doesn’t mean she has to get a share in everything he makes or gets.”
Are you serious? That’s exactly what it means. Any windfall you come into while you are married belongs to the both of you. That’s just how it is. No pre-nup needed. Anyway, this guy is totally stupid. He won $600,000.00. After taxes that will be about $400,000.00. Now, instead of getting the benefits of all of that money while living at home with his wife, he gets to be by himself with half of that. If he is an airline mechanic, that’s probably less than three years’ salary – totally not worth it. Plus now he’ll loose half of what he already owned in the divorce settlement. He’ll be worse off than he was before. What an idiot!
Someone should have told him, like Johnny Taylor said, “It’s Cheaper to Keepher.”