It is a big blow for a woman in the United States after the court ordered her to give her husband all the money she won in a lottery before she divorced him.
According to court documents, the woman, Denise Rossi won the jackpot in a lottery game, where she got the sum of Sh 272 million.
11 days after winning the money, Denise Rossi started the process of divorcing her husband, Thomas Rossi and thus breaking her marriage that had lasted for 25 years.
However, she did not tell her husband about winning the money nor in the court documents asking for a divorce, did she mention that she had won the money.
In her divorce filing, she mentioned that the reason was that she was just tired of marriage and she planned to be a free person who was not bound by the marriage covenant.
All her plans were scuppered after the lottery company sent the check to her husband's house two years later, not knowing that the two were divorced.
Thomas was shocked to learn that his ex-wife had won Sh 272 million in the California State Lottery and had been receiving 4.5 million shillings every year.
He accused her of violating government asset disclosure laws and acting fraudulently and in bad faith.
A Los Angeles family court judge agreed with Thomas and awarded him all of Denise's lottery money.
The judge said that Denise could have kept half of the money if she had been honest from the start, but she forfeited her right to it by hiding it, a Los Angeles-based newspaper reported.
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