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Q: A New Jersey man who won a $338 million Powerball jackpot, among the largest lottery winnings, is embroiled in a court fight with his former girlfriend over the money. 
  
 Pedro Quezada of Passaic was the sole winner of the Powerball drawing last spring, worth about $152 million after taxes. 
  
 His lawyer argues that Inez Sanchez has no claim to the money because the couple were never married. 
  
 But attorneys for Sanchez say Quezada purchased the ticket based on the couple's shared earnings. Sanchez and Quezada lived together for 10 years, have a child together, and shared ownership of a grocery store in Passaic, attorneys say. 
  
 Superior Court Chancery Judge Margaret Mary McVeigh refused to dismiss the lawsuit and she denied a request from Sanchez to freeze Quezada's lottery winnings, pending the outcome of a trial to determine if she is entitled to a share of the money, The Record ( http://bit.ly/17U3qcX) reported Saturday. 
  
 The judge said Friday that while the couple's relationship was long-term and Sanchez contributed to the household, the court has no legal framework for restraining Quezada's assets. 
  
 Sanchez has moved out of the recently purchased Clifton home the couple shared and has filed a domestic violence claim against Quezada, The Record reported. Quezada's attorney declined to comment on that claim. 
  
 Sanchez's attorney says that a large chunk of the lottery winnings is already gone, claiming $57 million has been sent to Quezada's native Dominican Republic, $5 million was given away, $300,000 was spent on the home in Clifton, and $20 million can't be located, the newspaper reported. 
  
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 Information from: The Record (Woodland Park, N.J.), http://www.northjersey.com ||||| Judge declines to freeze Clifton lottery winner’s assets in pending claim by former live-in girlfriend 
  
 STAFF WRITER 
  
 The Record 
  
 If you expect part of a lottery winner’s fortune because you’ve already shared a long personal and business relationship, always remember: Get it in writing. 
  
 ELIZABETH LARA/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Clifton resident, Pedro Quezada, who won millions in the Powerball lottery, appears in Superior Court in Paterson. 
  
 MONSY ALVARADO/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Powerball winner Pedro Quezada, with now former girlfriend, Ines Sanchez. 
  
 That was the reluctant decision of a state judge Friday, who cited state law in refusing to freeze the assets of Pedro Quezada, the Clifton man who won the $338-million Powerball jackpot last spring, pending the outcome of a trial to determine if his former live-in girlfriend is entitled to a share of the winnings. 
  
 Ines Sanchez and Quezada lived together for 10 years and shared ownership of a grocery store in Passaic, according to attorneys. Sanchez is the mother of one of Quezada’s children, while each also has children from other relationships 
  
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 She moved out of the recently purchased Clifton home where they were living together last month, attorneys said, noting she has a domestic violence claim pending against Quezada. Quezada’s lawyers declined to comment on that or any aspect of the case. 
  
 Quezada chose a lump sum payout of $211 million and received a check for $152 million after taxes, according to state lottery officials. 
  
 A large chunk of the money already is gone — $57 million has been sent to the Dominican Republic, $5 million was given away, $300,000 was spent on the home in Clifton and $20 million can’t be located, according to attorney Michael De Marco of North Haledon, who is representing Sanchez. 
  
 “I think we’re kidding ourselves to say we’ll ever see any of that money again,” De Marco told state Superior Court Chancery Judge Margaret Mary McVeigh in arguing that the court should temporarily freeze the assets. 
  
 The attorney argued that irreparable harm will be done if the judge didn’t freeze all assets until the overall case is decided. “If he is permitted to continue this course of conduct, there will be nothing left to talk about,” he said of the money. 
  
 “This was a man and a woman in a relationship akin to marriage for 10 years, who have a child in common and lived with other children from other relationships,” De Marco said. 
  
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 Faced more and more over the years with the unspoken contracts of unconventional partnerships, state court rulings often recognized the investment made by domestic unmarried couples and ways to compensate for it once the relationship ended. But in 2010, the New Jersey Legislature passed a measure weakening palimony case law and providing little legal recourse for domestic partners seeking financial compensation without having some sort of contract. 
  
 De Marco argued, however, that Sanchez and Quesada were not so much domestic partners as they were a “joint venture.” 
  
 “We’re not seeking ‘palimony.’ The parties had a relationship where they pooled their resources and paid their expenses,” he said, noting they co-owned and ran the Passaic grocery store that provided their joint income that paid their bills. 
  
 “One of the things this couple did was play the lottery,” he said. “They devoted themselves to a joint venture … So now we have an exception because one of the expenses has a return of $152 million?” 
  
 Attorney Jonathan W. Wolfe of Livingston, representing Quezada, argued that the couple was never married and therefore she has no claim. “Mr. Quezada individually went and purchased that ticket. They had never agreed to share the proceeds,” he said. 
  
 He noted that Sanchez went with Quezada to the lottery commission and watched him, alone, sign the claim to collect his winnings without any protestations. “If she believed she had no claim then, she can’t come here saying this now,” he said. 
  
 Now she’s saying that Quezada essentially bought the lottery ticket with one of her dollars, Wolfe said, and that is not a substantial enough investment to qualify as a joint venture. 
  
 The judge questioned if that was really quite what Sanchez was asserting. 
  
 “If I accept that was a ‘joint venture,’ there is a division of responsibility, a sense of reliance, a fiduciary obligation that is not always articulated …I look at this as the ticket that he was able to buy because she contributed by working at the store, which then gives him the freedom to go buy the ticket,” McVeigh said. 
  
 But in the end, the judge said, she had no choice but to deny the request to freeze Quezada’s assets pending full trial. 
  
 “As empathetic and compelling as your argument is — and as much as I consider 10 years a long-term relationship — I don’t have that in writing to hang an opinion on that these assets need to be restrained,” she said. 
  
 She added: “This is a unique situation. It’s something that most people dream about — stepping into the bottom of the rainbow, into that pot of gold. Or did you think I was going to say something else?” McVeigh joked. 
  
 But the joke was bitter-sweet. “That’s what money does to people: It changes positive relationships into bad ones. It doesn’t always enhance a relationship, or bring out people’s better qualities. Her [Sanchez’s] life has been up-ended by this winning ticket…But I am a judge. I don’t create the law. I have to follow it,” she said. 
  
 “Our Legislature has spoken. It specifically said, ‘For these types of arrangements, relationships, to be upheld there needs to be a writing. You cannot go forward with these types of relationships without something in writing.” 
  
 The judge refused to dismiss the overall lawsuit itself claiming Sanchez should get a fair share of the winnings. She did, however, refuse to stay her decision pending an expedited seven-day appeal. 
  
  
  
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A: 
The drama continues for Pedro Quezada, the New Jersey bodega owner who won a $338 million Powerball jackpot earlier this year. He already had to use some of his winnings to pay back child support, and now he's now battling his ex-girlfriend in court over the rest of the money, the AP reports. Quezada's lawyers say that, since he was never married to Inez Sanchez, she shouldn't get any of the winnings, and that he bought the ticket on his own. But her lawyers say the couple lived together for a decade, had a child together, shared ownership of the bodega, that they played the lottery together, and that Quezada bought the ticket based on their shared income. On Friday, a judge refused Sanchez's request to freeze Quezada's assets, the Record reports. But she also refused to dismiss the lawsuit, and a trial will decide the outcome. Sanchez moved out of the New Jersey home Quezada purchased with $300,000 of his winnings, and has filed a domestic violence claim against him. Her attorneys say Quezada has spent much of the $152 million lump sum payment, and that $20 million of it can't be located. Readers with good memories may recall the odd way Quezada informed then-girlfriend Sanchez that he had won.