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The Amsterdam
District Court ruling said the couple had listed the shared
assets they wished to divide at the time they filed for divorce
on Oct. 20, 2014, though the divorce was not formally granted
until June 2015. The woman won the Post Code Lottery on New
Year's Day 2015.
The man had argued that he and his estranged wife always played
the lottery using shared household funds during their 30-year
marriage, and it should be included in their divorce settlement.
But the judge noted they had separated their finances at least
four years earlier when he went to live with his new girlfriend.
The woman paid for the winning ticket from her own bank account.
"The above means that the prize won did not belong to their
joint assets and that the court will hold the prize apart in its
division of goods," the written decision said. The ruling was
made on Dec. 23 and published Tuesday.
The judge divided up the couple's other assets, which amounted
to less than 10,000 euros in value.
($1 = 0.9112 euros)
(Reporting by Toby Sterling; Editing by Alison Williams)
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