Speaker 1: Picture this.
Speaker 2: You just win yourself big cash on a scratchy on
Speaker 2: the lotto, you win big, you go to celebrate with
Speaker 2: your partner and they say to you, hey, we're splitting this, right.
Speaker 2: That's a tricky conversation, I think a conversation that I
Speaker 2: think people think about when they go and buy that
Speaker 2: a lot of ticket. Do you get to keep all
Speaker 2: the money or do you share it with your partner?
Speaker 1: Well, it depends on how long you've been with your partner.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent. Have you been with them a
Speaker 3: hot second? Are you married, live with them kids?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Have listened to this. So this is a situation that's
Speaker 1: currently unfolding on Facebook.
Speaker 2: It's going super viral at the moment. A young mum
Speaker 2: has won the lotto. She won, we don't know exactly
Speaker 2: how much, but she says it was half her yearly salary,
Speaker 2: So we can assume, you know, maybe thirty forty thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they're still a lot of money. But
Speaker 4: it's not like twelve million dollar win, is it. No
Speaker 4: one's quitting their day job.
Speaker 2: So listen, we know for a fact they were together
Speaker 2: for four years. They've been together four years. She says
Speaker 2: she won the lot of ticket that she bought on
Speaker 2: a whim. By the way, she just went walked in,
Speaker 2: grabbed a lot of ticket and won the money. She
Speaker 2: turned to the boyfriend and she said, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: going to put the money towards my kids. They're college,
Speaker 2: maybe do some upgrades to the house. He turns to
Speaker 2: her and says, what about my half? What about my heart?
Speaker 2: This is going super viral. She's come out and said, look,
Speaker 2: if I'd won six million, I'd have no problem giving
Speaker 2: him half because it would be so easy to live
Speaker 2: off three million. But a quarter of one new salary
Speaker 2: won't help me.
Speaker 1: Much, is what she said. If she splits it with him.
Speaker 1: So the internet's now saying, no, here's your partner, split
Speaker 1: it with him.
Speaker 3: I actually reading some of the comments now, I'm actually suok.
Speaker 1: Someone's like, is.
Speaker 3: Half the plot worth more than your relationship? If it is,
Speaker 3: then you shouldn't be in the relationship. I call him
Speaker 3: BS on this. I think if she's one, if we're
Speaker 3: going with like thirty to forty thousand dollars, if she
Speaker 3: has won that and she wants to put that towards
Speaker 3: her kids, they don't live together.
Speaker 1: They're not married. She bought the ticket. I'm sorry. She
Speaker 1: can do with the what she wants.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I think it's very I mean it's very dependent though,
Speaker 4: brit I also think if you're living together, then you're
Speaker 4: de facto if you were to separate, he probably could
Speaker 4: get some of it anyway. Like I think that there's
Speaker 4: many factors that kind of change it. But if you're
Speaker 4: not living together, it's just your boyfriend. You've been together
Speaker 4: for four years and you have kids yourself that you
Speaker 4: have to take care of.
Speaker 1: Hi you're responsible for. I think it's kind of rich
Speaker 1: of him to ask for you to also think of
Speaker 1: it this way.
Speaker 2: Imagine if she had got that thirty thousand dollars from
Speaker 2: anything other than a lot of win I mean a
Speaker 2: work bonus.
Speaker 1: No one's getting thirty k work bonuses, but a work
Speaker 1: bonus or a big tax return. Right. You don't split
Speaker 1: that money with your partner, do you.
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, because it's a it's money out of noble
Speaker 2: we think split it.
Speaker 3: At the end of the day, she's a young mum
Speaker 3: with kids like that is her money to do with
Speaker 3: what she will and if she wants to put it. Also,
Speaker 3: if she wants to put it towards the house. Chances
Speaker 3: are in a way that's going towards him anyway, right,
Speaker 3: like if you're going to end up sharing a house
Speaker 3: and getting married and whatever else. But like these people
Speaker 3: that are making her feel bad, telling us she's selfish, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 3: I think reconsider your life choices.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of wins, though, are so divisive
Speaker 4: in families and amongst people. Though, Like in my own family,
Speaker 4: my grandparents, there was a big division between my dad's
Speaker 4: family and my mum's family because of a lot of
Speaker 4: win A winning lot of tickets happened to you. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: and it was Look, it did not go down well
Speaker 4: for the burn Philippi household.
Speaker 1: Back in the day, did your mom have Facebook?
Speaker 4: She was a young single mom. But no, this happened
Speaker 4: many many years ago. Look, I mean both sides have
Speaker 4: passed away now, so I can probably tell the story,
Speaker 4: but I think I might save that for another day
Speaker 4: this week.