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

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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/

If this was reverse gender the responses here be very different and the consensus would be the money should be split.

I remember a few years ago where a woman in Scotland IIRC won a few million on the lottery and her ex husband (they were divorced) tried to claim half. He wasn't entitled to a penny. I did laugh.

He's an absolute chancer. Not a hope he would have split it if it was the other way around. 3 months? He's having a laugh.

No. The reasons people think it is solely her winnings are because she bought the ticket and they had only been together for 5 minutes.

If they had been together 10 years, shared finances etc, I may think differently. Nothing to do with their gender sex.

After three months together? I disagree.

There is one big problem here, which is that posters have read about this man’s past and think they has a bearing on the outcome. It doesn’t. But I refuse to believe that people would side with a woman just because of her gender in this case. “I was also in the room” is a pretty pathetic defence, regardless of gender.

Well unpopular opinion but it seems it was his idea and she bought them at his suggestion.

And? SHE won!

I recall that when the lottery was set up, syndicates (ie two ir more people) were advised to set up a contract. So st work, whenever we did a group entry, someone would print out a sheet which we would all sign to agree to sharing the winnings etc

The one who paid for the ticket wins the prize. Unless all money within the family (I realize this isn't a family in this case) is communal--as it is in mine.

Depends. Did they say 'oooooo we should buy one' or did she just choose to buy one

The money was transferred AFTER he knew there had been a significant win. His story about the payment sounds like a lie as others have said, it doesn't try again 40 mins later.

He attempted to transfer her a couple a quid?? Oh come on!!
He ‘encouraged her to buy it’… again ‘give over!’
If he’d wanted to buy one he’d have bought one too!
And let’s face it, if it was other way round I bet he’d have legged it with the money too… I think pretty much 99% of people would not share a million pound with someone they’d known 12 weeks!!

His story is the cctv shows him trying to transfer the money, the shop assistant recalls him doing this. My view is coloured by the people I see buying loads of cards and swapping teeny amounts of cash or discussing it.
Neither of them sound lovely, but I think they should split it.

I wonder how often he went to the shops without a means to pay for anything.

He is violent scum so I don’t care if she morally owes him or not.

Voted she should have shared before seeing the updates. Yep she should keep it and forget she ever met him. Not enough information really though.

I'd offer him a sum, with an NDA and a restraining order just to keep his flappy mouth shut.

A judge would laugh him out of court. If he had the money to buy the scratchcard, why didn't he just buy it? Transferring such a small amount of money to his girlfriend to buy it when they were together just makes zero sense.

I hope she doesn't give the chancing prick a penny.

Not sure how the cctv will show that. He may have just been looking at something on the phone.

The main thing is he didn't transfer the money or pay for the card.

She bought the ticket and it was her name on the back so it is her money.

If you try and transfer money, and it doesn't go through, does the app keep on trying or does one have to do it again?

Not with any of the three banks I bank with. It either goes through or fails.

He's also up in court for battering his ex so I'd say karma bit this c^nt in the arse

So if he had written his name on it what then?

She’d likely have been the one Camelot gave the money too after an investigation as she can prove she bought and paid for it.

Had she written both of their names on it he might have had a sniff…

I've learned a lot from this post, I didn't know he was about to go on trial for assaulting a previous partner I didn't know he originally stole ticket from her, anf that they had only been together 3 months. Me being me before learning this info, was thinking what a cow to not share and then dump him 🤣
I think generally regardless of length of relationship , and 3 months in I would have felt quite settled and would have shared winnings, maybe not given them equal if I had bought ticket but definitely given them something