A Windsor woman accused of taking her 81-year-old husband’s $3.5 million winning lottery ticket and the daughter who cashed it in were released on bail in Ontario court Thursday.

The Ontario Provincial Police arrested a Windsor, Ont., woman and her daughter on Wednesday on charges of stealing her husband’s winning multimillion-dollar lottery ticket.

Since celebrating a $3.5 million lottery win earlier this year, a Windsor, Ontario, family has been torn apart with an elderly man accusing his wife and stepdaughters of conspiring to hide the winnings from him.

A legal battle over ownership of a $3.5 million winning lottery ticket could have been averted by one simple act the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation “strongly recommends” — signing the ticket.

An 81-year-old Canadian man in Windsor, Ontario, is suing his wife over a claim she stole his lottery ticket that paid out $3.5 million in April.