AIBU to say he should give me his scratchcard winnings?

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This is a lighthearted tounge-in-check debate and DP and I are just messing around with each other

Yesterday, DP filled up my car with fuel and I gave him my card to pay for it.

When he got home from work, he told me that he won £10 on a scratchcard, he then told me he bought the scratchcard with my card at the garage when he paid for my fuel.

We went to the supermarket to cash the scratchcard in - he’s saying the winnings are his, but I think it’s mine as he bought it on my card without my knowledge.

Who do the winnings belong to?

YABU - winnings are his
YANBU - winnings are mine

Just be glad it wasn’t the jackpot!

Solicitor here. He bought it with your funds so you have an arguable case that he entered the contract as your agent and therefore the winnings are yours.

In his defence he could say that you had no knowledge that he entered the contract so no agency has arisen.

But then you could counter-argue that there was no agreement that he could utilise £5 from your card in that way, therefore he effectively stole it. Which I think is the tort of conversion <racks brains> and the winnings belong to neither of you and should be returned to the retailer and you should also be refunded your £5 as he never had capacity to enter the contract.

I've confused myself now, ha! But I think that's the answer.

In practical terms the retailer won't be interested so you are £5 down and there is still £10 to account for. Morally £5 is automatically yours to cover the stake funded by you which leaves the other £5. Split it to reflect your financial risk and his lucky instinct - so £2.50 each. 🤣

Never understood separate finances light-hearted or not, it just does not compute!

He’s does use it occasionally, and does fill up when he does. No aversion to filling up myself, but I’m 36 weeks pregnant and we were on our way to a hospital appointment, we’d have been late by the time I’d waddled in to pay for it myself 😂😂😂

So.. your options are:

• He pays you the £5 for the ticket and keeps the winnings (but this should have been paid BEFORE he knew it'd won, so wouldn't work here really).
• You share the profits, so £2.50 each.
• You put it towards a takeaway (£5 of it - £5 stays with you to cover the ticket) and he pays the rest to apologise for being a cheeky bastard and using your card without permission.

:D

Did you not understand the post?

This has really made me laugh 😂

Why are you having a child with someone when you haven’t even agreed how you will share scratchcard winnings?

🤣

£100 is nothing. I don’t get out of bed for less than £1,000,000.

Definitely LTB.
making sure of course that you take him for every fiver that he has 😂

You should get £7.50. He should get £2.50.

Defo your money. Put it towards your lawyers fees when you LTB, lol

Legally YABU. The owner of the card is the person who actually purchased it. Not the person who paid for it.

You could try reporting him but you won’t be covered because you handed him over the card.

My thoughts exactly, I’m just conscious about the cost of heating the pool and the upkeep of the pony…

Maybe an extravagant holiday without CF DP is the answer?

This is why people need the protection of marriage, it becomes a marital asset.

Does anyone actually know what the lottery rules are. So if my DH went to the shop and bought a ticket with my card and it won £50m is that my money or his money.
Ignoring we are married, split finances etc.

LTB! And sue him for the lottery winnings!

He owes you the £5 he spent on the card, half of the £10 winnings and the interest accruing on the owed money whilst he continues to argue his case…

Did you miss the bit where OP said it's lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek!

I would split if it was small amount - bigger amount maybe go for a mini break together 😊

She said tongue in cheek so maybe it’s a lighthearted thing rather than a squabble!

There’s always one..

did you miss the bit about it being a light hearted debate?

@BlackberryCat sorry I quoted the wrong response! It was in reply to pp saying ‘are things really that bad at the moment that you’re squabbling over a tenner’

Unless he put his hand in his pocket to pay for the scratch card before scratching and finding out he won it's yours. By paying on your card that's theft if finances are separate. Otherwise i'm assuming he has promised to share the winnings with you.

This is the correct answer, lessons must be learned!