If you won the Euromillions, would you have to give some

[Letsseewhattomorrowbrings]

To your other half (not married, but living together and with a child)
I’m not talking morally/what would be fair to do
Just out of interest.
I live with Dp (quite unhappily ) and young dc. We’re not married, but together a long time. House in both our names, bar, bills and so on.
At the moment, he earns more than me, as I do the majority with our Dd and the majority of everything else. In the past I earned the same or more at points over the years.
Our bank account is joint.
If I were to purchase a ticket one day myself and I won, would I legally have to give any to him (not saying I wouldn’t) just curious
Realise this will never happen 😂

Nope, he wouldn’t be entitled to any, just as you’d not be entitled to anything he won. Though you’d need your own bank account to put it in. Do you not have one of your own? I’ve never understood doing that.

If I was that lucky I’d be gone in a heartbeat

He wouldn’t legally be entitled to any.

If he went for child maintenance from you then he could go for an unearned income variation to have the interest on the savings taken into account as income.

Big lottery winners generally get new accounts anyway as they often use banks like Coutts so it wouldn’t matter if a winner didn’t have their own account currently

@WhyWhyY Yeah 🤗

Im single so i would keep the lot and keep my mouth shut.
No one would know ive won.

If you won and you wanted to leave him, surely you'd just do that, live modestly and never let on?!

Same.

So what’s the thread for?!

If its bought from the joint bank account surely he has joint ownership. Just like any other piece of property. Bought with joint fund=joint ownership.

Bought with your own money. No, you don't even have to tell him. Personally it would be our money because we're happy and committed and building a life together.

Legally no (although if you bought the ticket out of the joint account maybe it would be a joint win?), but even if the relationship was in its death throes, I would want my DC to go round to their Dads, have a room of their own in a nice house and not see him struggling. So I'd probably buy him a house and pay off his debts on my way out of the door.

However if he was a lovely Dad, the relationship was failing through no real fault and I still wanted to be friends I'd probably give him a genrous chunk more.

Alternatively if he was an abusive monster and this was my chance to escape he wouldn't see a bloody penny.

@chiwwy ? I know that my pension is less at the moment whilst I work part time. My post wasn’t about that

On what basis? They aren't married.

If it was just from cash, wouldn’t ever buy a ticket using my card

So have you? Won. Otherwise why overthink it

He financially support. She practically supports. No one is doing any more for the other.

But where did the cash come from? If you only have a joint account then you can't claim it's your money. If you have a separate account too with withdrawals in cash, then fine

@Flatleak Cash in hand job

When you win you will be asked who paid for the ticket and if you have told anybody. The winnings can only be paid out to one person.

@Llandudley Why do they ask you if you’ve told anybody?

If you have won a substantial sum the news will leak if you have told anyone and they want to be prepared for that.

This doesn’t sound a healthy relationship at all.

I think you should be careful in this situation to make sure you pay for any tickets from your own account rather than a joint account.

As far as sharing is concerned legally you don't have to as you are not married and you certainly don't owe him anything. If you won the euro lottery and won tens of millions of pounds then you'd have to remember that your child would still be seeing that dad and the change in living situations would be very marked.