Lottery Winner Forced To Pay Ex-Wife £2m

 

What kind of world are we living in when this can happen!

This man bought a lottery ticket and was lucky enough to win and would, I assume, have given some to his daughter ( given that it appears he was of a sufficiently generous nature to have given his old house to his cleaner) and then his ‘wife’ who left him ten years ago for someone else (for whatever reasons) hears about it and starts seeing pound signs!

If the report on Sky News – Online at Yahoo – is accurate, this man paid for her share of their house ten years ago and has been paying maintainance for his child for the last ten years and then greed rears it’s ugly head! would she have agreed to pay him the money if the situation were reversed?; I’m willing to bet not!

What makes the whole thing worse is that the claim is backed by the law in the first place. It may have been an ‘out of court’ settlement but that means that some lawyer advised him that he would lose if he continued to fight the claim.

In my opinion it should not be possible  for one to be open to claims like this when someone is lucky enough to reap the rewards of taking the chance of paying for a lottery ticket in the first place!

 

 

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20101122/tuk-lottery-winner-forced-to-pay-ex-wife-45dbed5.html