To ask if Million pound lottery winner who refuses to share money with partner should have shared?

[SweetBirdsong]

I am surprised this isn't on here actually. It's been on the news for 2 days, and has just been discussed on Loose Women.

From the article...

A couple are waging war over a £1 million lotto scratchcard they ‘purchased together’ weeks before breaking up.

Michael Cartlidge, 39, and former partner Charlotte Cox, 37, purchased the
Lottery card together at a shop in Spalding, Lincs. But when Charlotte walked out on Michael a few weeks later, she was deemed to be the sole winner of the jackpot by lottery chiefs.

Michael admits that Charlotte both paid for and scratched the ticket. But he also claims that he was the one who suggested she buy the ticket and attempted to transfer her cash to cover the purchase while they were in the shop.
He says the mum-of-one initially agreed to split the cash, but later welched on the deal after breaking up with him a few weeks later and claimed she was the sole winner of the jackpot.

He said ‘£1million has never brought such misery.’

So, was the woman (Charlotte) wrong to have kept all the money to herself? They were not married, they didn't own any property together or have joint finances, and they'd only been together 3 months. Lottery chiefs said she is the sole owner of the money and does not have to share it.

YABU - she was WRONG to keep the money and should have split it with him. They were 'a couple.' He didn't pay for the ticket, but they got it at the same time.

YANBU - she was RIGHT to keep it - as she paid for the ticket herself, and didn't need to share it. They'd only been together 3 months, they weren't married, and they didn't have a house together or joint finances.

https://metro.co.uk/2024/02/20/man-claims-ex-dumped-weeks-bought-winning-1-000-000-scratchcard-20311093/

In situations like this I always think would the non winner ( in this case the guy ) offer to help bail her out if she suddenly got into debt.

I recon most would run for the hills .
If you won't help people when they are down on their luck , don't expect them to help you when they have got a good thing going .

I agree but I also think she should be careful, this man will be convinced that at least half the money is rightfully his, probably has convinced himself that it all belongs to him because of the stress caused by not having any of it, or something like that.
Anyway I would be concerned that he will take revenge.

When Charlotte walked out on Michael a few weeks later, she was deemed to be the sole winner of the jackpot by lottery chiefs

If this is correct then it's all that needs to be said

And no, he's not a "partner" after just a few weeks - he's a chancer flapping his mouth in the hope of getting something

its hers. She brought it.

She could have brought it and let him scratch it. It’s still hers. They wouldn’t be in the position they were in if she hadn’t paid for the ticket.

He’s a chancer. She paid for two tickets and “when she got home she scratched it”. Did he scratch a dud one and she scratched the winning one?

She’s well rid especially as he pinched it when she wanted to break up with him. Glad she put her name on the back.

He’s already threatened to sue, hope that’s kicked out as well. Trying to claim her winnings on a scratch card she bought, scratched and stick her name on.

Wouldnt be surprised it he did transfer her some money after he realised she’d won.

Bought not brought 🫣
But i agree its hers. I can imagine at the time it was a joint thing them buying it together but since they broke up shortly after and it was her who bought it he doesn't have any claim to it now they are separated

She's correct. She bought it, she scratched it.

Half a million for a 3-month relationship?! Fuck that!

Her cash. 3 months barely makes him a boyfriend let alone a partner. He should piss off.

The relationship length shouldn't make a difference. If you want a share of someone else's lottery winnings you either need to be married or have a syndicate agreement.
Those two relationship types are very rarely the only two in their side of a Venn diagram.

As others said I bet he only tried to transfer the cash after she’d won. And I know every banking app is different but with mine the money instantly transfers or it doesn’t, it doesn’t do it 40 mins later. If there’s no signal then it will fail and you have to manually try again, but it won’t automatically retry itself some minutes later. Even if that’s true, the money didn’t clear at the time of purchase so she used her own cash to buy them.

i think he’s at it. And they aren’t married so I can’t see how he has legal grounds.

I thought this was going to be a sad story of someone swindling a long term loving partner. Not a violent 3 month chancer who can't even successfully send her a few quid.

So if I walked in with a friend and bought a ticket, because the friend was with me someone thinks she should get half? He was accompanying her, he didn´t purchase half, they weren´t married etc etc. Tough mate.

Money came from her account, not a joint account. They aren't married. It's her's.

Everything else is just irrelevant detail.

His story is that of a chancer!

Why didn't he buy his own ticket? (No need to fuss about transfering money for her to buy one.)

She bought it - she won.

At 12 weeks into a failing relationship he has no claim on her. (If she suddenly fell into debt rather than fortune, no-one would be expecting him to pay her creditors.)

He needs to jog on, making himself look a total idiot.

WOW I didn't know that. And I am in the 'she shouldn't need to share' camp!

And who the F transfers £2.00 to someone's bank LOL!

I just hope he doesn’t try and stalk/harass her now. He sounds nasty.

I read the article, reading between the lines he sounds like a cocklodger. He was asked by her friends to leave her home after she had left. Why did she have to leave her own home ?. She saw him for who he was very early on lucky woman. Perhaps she had learnt about the previous girlfriend being assaulted, he probably gave her a load of she’s lying etc woe is me act.
However, on the bright side there are many articles in various papers advising woman against dating this specimen.

I often have the idea of buying a lottery ticket and think about getting out the money to do so but don't... does that mean I have a claim on whoever did buy the winning ticket? :)

She paid for it and scratched it, her money, no questions asked!

If I suggest you buy a house and you do, do I have claim to it? He’s grabby!

If you've been together a long time and fully share finances then he might have an argument. Otherwise, nope!

I read an article of fb about this, it said he was living with her, after only 3 months and she has children, I couldn’t move someone in after 3 months let alone meet my children I wondered if he was a cocklodger