Local Lotto Winner Sued For Child Support A Third TimePOSTED: 12:27 pm EDT May 25, 2005
SANFORD, Fla. -- A Florida Lotto winner who once lived with two sisters and fathered their children is for a third time being sued for child support.
Mary Lackey, 39, of Orange City filed suit Monday against Robert G. Swofford Jr., winner of a $34.7 million lump sum payout late last year. In March, a judge ruled Swofford should pay her $2,000 a month for care of their 12-year-old daughter.
But Lackey wants more, now that she's seen what sister Ann Swofford received for child support. In that settlement, worked out after he won the lottery but before he claimed the prize, Ann Swofford got $5.25 million and $1 million to support their 11-year-old son.
In Lackey's new suit, she asks for an unspecified amount of Swofford's winnings to be put it in a trust fund for her. There is no mention of child support.
Lackey later suggested that $2.6 million might be the right amount.
"I did not have a marriage contract, but every aspect of the relationship was as a marriage," Lackey said. "I cooked. I cleaned. I took care of children. ... We had a physical relationship."
Lackey acknowledged the family's living arrangement -- two sisters living with one man -- was unusual, but she said she was only 25 when their physical relationship began.
"We just sort of fell into it," Lackey said. "Bob was saying there was nothing to be ashamed of."
Swofford would not discuss their lives, but he did say he was happy he won the lottery.
"Yeah, I mean, everything has its own set of troubles," he said. "Am I happy? Absolutely. Am I wishing she'd get a new life? Yes."
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