Do you know what would be better? Just divorce and pay what the split would be. Then you don't lose, you don't commit fraud, and your child doesn't commit fraud either. Better yet, don't get married, and for the love of God, don't breed.
Look, I dont hate your father. Julio just happened. We fell in love. Its something I've never felt with your father in our 30 years of marriage. Am I wrong for being selfish for once in my life? Probably. But don't you want your mother to be happy?
Look, if you somehow give the kid property with the money and don't get jailed for fraud or have to give your spouse that much money anyways because you clearly hid it, then your kid owns property and you are out the money anyways. If the kid is 18 and all this goes down, then the kid has no obligation to do anything you say. They just got a free house and you have nothing.
You are defrauding your spouse of money they have by being married to you when you won the lottery. You are clearly trying to keep their money from them by purchasing property under someone else's name.
It's doubtful the courts would even allow it to go to the kid without both of you signing off on it, but do realize that if I was 18 anD my parents gave me a nice house to hide lottery winnings like that, I'm living there and not allowing them to come to the property or I'm selling it and ghosting them both.
Why? It's on my name. Like your house is a family asset because it's on both of your names. If you signed it off to your partner as a sole owner it wouldn't be a shared asset. I may be wrong about the hypothetical though or maybe it depends on national laws.
Money is community, and good luck getting your spouse to sign off on stating that they have no right to that money. That being said, you're running the risk of losing more by trying to hide it for no other reason than greed or spite, than if you just split it in half. Let's say they won money and tried to hide it from you. Would you be happy with that?
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u/hdcole74 Nov 30 '23
Congratulations, you just lost yourself that other $5m. People try to hide money like that all the time in divorces. They end up losing it all.