It depends on what type of trust you are setting up. Florida let some people stay anonymous by collecting the jackpot with a revocable trust. The lottery takes anywhere from 2-8 weeks to collect the jackpot money from every state and put it into their account so you and your attorneys will have time to set up a trust. I expect a few winners who don't trust anybody to attempt to make their own trust on a site like legal zoom but it may backfire if your name is on the trust because you didn't hide behind a lawyer/law firm.
But don't you have to show up to claim it with the trust set up?
The lawyer acts as the person who is the trust beneficiary. You can just send them and if the lottery has questions about where you bought the ticket or how much you spent then your lawyer can just call you on the cell phone. IRS, lottery, media with a rights of information act basically anybody who looks into that trust will only see that lawyer and that law firm. You can blow your cover by closing the trust too soon and putting it all in an account in your name. Some people have set up a trust collected the money and then later put that money into another trust. Most of the time they hope the media and regular player hype dies down so people wont care who won. Big jackpots like this one are when some smart people go in to collect smaller jackpots. The media cares more about the $500 million dollar winner than the $1 million dollar winner collecting on the exact same day.But don't you have to show up to claim it with the trust set up?
One winner in Cali.
Probably some cac.
At the end of the video he said $630 million but when it gets that high the casuals come out and play to make it jump up higher each day so the final friday jackpot would have jumped higher. 23 rolls without a winner should have produced a billion dollar jackpot but Powerball being 9 figures was also taking away some sales.
