to all the people that say winning the lottery would be awful, it would be pretty easy to make it work.

step 1. find a national law firm and use them to cash the ticket through an LLC

2. figure out a percentage of winnings for family, then set up a trust and divvy out equal amounts for each person and keep a team of attorneys on retainer to help them through their financial and legal hurdles

3. direct all requests for money from anyone to a team that will use a pre-determined metric and a cash pool to figure out how much to give to each person. ie $30 for girl scout cookies $100 to a kid who wants to go to basketball camp $10,000 for cancer research, etc. anyone asks for money, give them a business card with a unique pin so that they can't reuse it for other reasons

4. start a couple businesses and hire on management to run them so there is incoming cash. offer jobs to friends and give them cushy positions such as 'head of quality management for incoming clients' so that they can make some money and things don't get weird

5. write up a contract with a financial team that would give a hard cap on yearly spending so that the well doesn't dry up in 6 months

6. find someone you trust and put them in communication with a team of private investigators to watch your back and your finances.

Then just lay low and don't do anything dumb like drop 20 grand at a strip club or commit crimes with checks and you'll be fine