YES!
No, you agree to it, in effect, when you buy the ticket.
She wants to probably avoid some bill collectors.
PAY THEM you silly woman.
I thought the first action was the IRS and State tax agencies contact the winner so that taxes are paid before the winner gets paid the net proceeds.
Your SS#, tax returns, income, bank accounts and other financial information is protected and confidential. A large monetary prize should be protected from all the usual suspects too.
Yes.
Publish the gender, county, and age of the winner then.
Why not?
She agreed to have her name published when she purchased her ticket. This is printed right on the ticket.
That said, if I won a big jackpot, I would arrange my disappearance before making the claim. Only after my clean-slate life was established would I produce the ticket.
YES!
There’s a policy reason behind forcing the winner to be public - public confidence in the game.
It’s important for the public to know the winner so that they know that 1. there is indeed a winner(s) and 2. the winner(s) aren’t friends or family of the lottery organizers.
To be fair, there are good policy reasons for privacy, too.
If I won, sure! But then again, I would like to know it if someone like John Corzine won the Powerball.
She can now afford private security, but that is no way to live your life!
If I won the lottery I would try to not buy anything in my real legal name, you wouldn’t even have to buy a house to live in, you just give enough money to a friend or relative or legal trust to put down as a down payment on a house to live in, in their name or something like that. About the only thing you would probably have to have in your real name would be your drivers license, with an address, but that doesn’t mean you have to live at the address on the driver license, I don’t know about the address on the drivers license but I would try to get it to lead to a undeveloped vacant lot in a upper class rich closed gate neighborhood that would make it hard for con artists etc to excess the neighborhood, that would probably do the job. As far as everything else you probably could work it out friends and neighbors and relatives to have everything in their name. Stuff like your cell phones, newspapers, etc, maybe credit cards too, etc in some one else name. Not positively sure about all that stuff though legally but I would try something along that line, and also I would try to get a new name and or a second name to do legal stuff in that might not be able to be tracked. Might have to get a legal residence and citizenship in another country with a name change etc. I don’t know if you can do all that stuff but I wouldn’t doubt you could do it. I would also use debit cards instead of credit cards.
Absolutely!
Large sized lottery winners are felon killers magnets.
As long as their tax issues are clean it's nobody's business...
But I don't think I would let it stop me from collecting half a billion - would have plenty of money to help insulate myself....
However, since the ticket is a barer instrument, I’ve also seen the advice that you should sign the ticket right away, taking a picture of it front and back and putting it into a safe deposit box before going to the lottery office to ensure you can claim to be the rightful owner in case it gets into someone else’s hands.
And setting up a trust would take some time, how long I’m not sure. But unless I was absolutely 100% + confident in the attorney setting up the trust, I’m not sure I’d hand the ticket over to a lawyer who could then sign his or her own name instead of the trust, leaving the rightful winner SOL. I’d also be leery of setting up a trust unless it was set up where I had sole and 100% control of it.
Me? At this point I’d make arrangements to claim the prize rather than wasting time and money on a legal fight and as some have suggested to move, change my name, etc., and then show up to have my picture taken with my new name and but also show up for my promotional picture in my new “gender and race”. “Hey, I now identify as black male” complete with bald-plate wig and black face.
They gave her an option, which was to claim it via a trust.
The very first thing you should do with such a win is consult an attorney, etc.
Since she didn’t use that option, the prize is humongous, etc., they should probably have another option of allowing the winner to stay anonymous for some percentage or fee for which they can compensate with other advertising.
the problem is....most people that play the lottery would not be able to keep themselves quiet.
so, it would not really matter if they were “allowed” to remain anonymous...they simply couldn’t.
have you ever met a chronic gambler that was not a braggart at some level? They always seem to brag about winnings, etc...they rarely lose, etc...
pure BS. even a rudimentary understanding of probability would point out their mental folly...
Some states allow them to be. Lottery winners in Kansas can remain anonymous. Lottery winners in Missouri are identified. That’s just part of the contract you make when you buy the ticket.