Until now not a single divorce case involving a lottery win has come before the High Court.  This is surprising considering that the National Lottery started as long ago as 1994.

The judge awarded the husband £82,000 out of the wife’s £500,000 win.  The husband would have received nothing if he had not needed it for his retirement and if the wife had not used some of her winnings to buy the matrimonial home that the couple had been living in when they separated.  The judge said he had taken into account that the wife had bought the ticket out of her own earnings and without telling the husband.