This one of those silly threads but ive got It in my head now so I need to discuss it :p I'm sure we will never win the lottery but it crossed my mind when buying a ticket that if we did we'd be in a bit of a predicament.
Dsd 3 lives with us and dsd 1 and 2 live with their (different) mum.
I was wondering what would happen financially.
DP has never been married, dsd 1 and 2 are twins and they weren't together when they found she was pregnant, he wanted to try so they got back together briefly after they were born but she left very soon.
We would obviously buy a house with a big room each etc and want to spend plenty of the money on the girls. But if they continued to live with their mum would she have a legal right to any of the money or even Increased maintenance? We would obviously want to pay a fair amount and I don't want to sound stingy but her and her husband have 6 other kids between them that live with them, we wouldn't want all our money spent on all of them, as there's no way she'd have dsds living better than them. We'd want to be paying for educational stuff, clubs, trips and holidays, better clothes etc (as well as basics like uniform and school dinners) on top of a reasonable maintenance amount, not showering her with more money than she needs for his 2.
So does anyone know what the legalities would be, and would it make a difference if I won rather than dp as again were not married.
I appreciate that this is totally silly :p
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