Lawsuits are a joke in our society; everyone laughs about how frivolous they can be.
Well, today I heard two stories that make me laugh as well as cringe with embarrassment at our nation's lack of hesitance when it comes to suing each other.
I will only let you know about one of them, the one that urges me to write, to express how ridiculous things can be, and to ask you to raise our future generation to have common sense and compassion. Oh, and please don't teach them how to be idiots.
Like this woman. Her husband played Lotto throughout their marriage, and according to the article, she hated that fact. The man finally won-- he won 600,000 dollars from a pool he went in with his co-workers. Apparently he kept this fact from his wife and bought a house.
She's pissed. She doesn't like that she didn't know and she wants half of the winnings. The article does not allude to a job for the wife. There is no evidence that she works. As far as I know, she's a lazy old hag who got mad at her hard working husband for spending fifty cents on a pool for a Lotto ticket because he never won, but got even more mad when he won because he did not tell her right away.
I don't want to defend the husband because I don't really know if he was hiding it to surprise her, to leave her, or any number of things he wanted to do with the winnings. But I do have to say that what this woman is doing is ridiculous.
She is suing for her half of the winnings, the 300,000 dollars that she did not pay for and has no claim to other than the marital bonds.
If these marital bonds were the only factor, then yeah, she'd deserve to have a say in what happens to the money: in a marriage, you pretty much share everything. But she obviously has no sensitivity for the marital bonds. She says, and I quote:
"Right now, all I want is justice," Campbell said. "With time, I will file for divorce."
Yeah. She totally deserves half of the money. NOT. She wants JUSTICE: i.e. half of the money that she did not take part or interest in, and her main argument is that they are married. But she plans on filing for divorce.
After announcing that tidbit, how does this woman have any claim to anything of his? Maybe she has claims to the things they obtained together, but as far as I'm concerned, they are no longer a married couple. They are on paper... but not in any just or moral ways.
We are coming to a day where children will sue their mothers for not cleaning their rooms for them. Husbands will sue their wives for not allowing them to sleep with other people. And wives who want a divorce will sue their spouse for lottery winnings they had nothing to do with.
Please, citizens, I implore you, Raise your children with a sense of common decency, common sense, and common knowledge. Give them a moral base. And don't let them be greedy bitches when they are "all grown up."
It is your responsibility and your job as a parent to keep your kids from getting stupid and suing me in 20 years for the coffee I serve being too hot, or the fountain drink being too cold. Or for not giving my spouse who I hate and plan on divorcing half of the money I won with my own pocket change.
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I don't get why she's suing... she'll be entitled to half of the 'estate' when she divorces anyway, won't she?
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That's what I thought.
She's just an idiot, and it's making me sick. :P
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I think it depends on the state.
Here, you have to have been married for so long before you're entitled to half of any estate that came about during the marriage; and even then, you can't touch anything that came from outside the marriage.
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Well, the 600K definitely came about during the marriage, as long as they're still married...
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Understandable. I asked that argument at first, too. But I don't understand how she's asking for "justice" and yet she plans on getting half of the lottery winnings and then divorcing him.
So much for marriage.
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I think that if she gets any money may depend on weather or not he was planning on moving in to the house with her or surprising her with the house.
But that still depends on the state.
Here, unless she helped to pay for bills and etc. or contributed to the cost of the lottery ticket, it came from outside the marriage. Regardless if they were married when he won.
Just as if he would have inherited it from an Aunt or something.
So she wouldn't be entitled to it until after so long, and even then she'd have to fight for it and she'd probably lose.
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Only if there wasn't a prenup.
Nicholas Aden
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*Depends on the State*
Because here prenup has nothing to do with it; you have to be married for so long before you're entitled to half of anything.
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So there are lots of factors to be taken into account. At any rate, she is not entitled to this money, she doesn't deserve this money, and she can suck it up. The fact that she's going to divorce him after trying to sue him is grounds enough for a judge to just say, "Suck it up, no money for you, bitch."
Nicholas Aden
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I have to agree with Nick.
I'm no law major; I don't understand the technical rules of whether or not she deserves the money. But she should not be entitled to it any any moral way.
Money hungry-divorce happy-b word.
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...bitch. Who says "b-word?"
Nicholas Aden
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Geeze, Nick, don't be such a bitch.
I say b-word. It's much less offensive ;)
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What a gold digger! If she was ready to leave her husband for 300,000 she has something else comeing to her. It will cost a good part of that for divorce. And in the end she wont have much more than what she started with- unemployment and no life.
I wonder why some husbands are like this- they don't tell their wives about their finances because my father was like that before my mother divorced him and her best friend's husband was like that, one time; so, I wonder why some husbands are like that.
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Great blog entry. It really is ridiculous how sue-happy Americans are. I went to London for vacation and I met a Australian couple on a day trip. They told me how common a joke the Americans and their suing is. I told them it's a joke over here too, but it's also reality.
I wish people would have the guts and the intelligence to stop suing for stupid things. C'mon, suing over a spilled coffee? Getting fat at a McDonalds? Husband winning the lottery?! Seriously, you must be nuts.
The craziest part is when they actually win.