“…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.”

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.

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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.