Jennifer Lopez desires to drop “Affleck” from her final identify amid her and Ben Affleck‘s divorce.
In new courtroom paperwork filed on Thursday, August 21, and obtained by Us Weekly, Lopez, 55, requested that her identify be restored to Jennifer Lynn Lopez.
The “Jenny From the Block” artist additionally listed the explanation for her and Affleck’s cut up, citing irreconcilable variations. Lopez additionally acknowledged that she didn’t need herself nor Affleck, 52, to be awarded spousal assist, per the docs.
Moreover, Lopez acknowledged she desires to separate their belongings and money owed; nevertheless, the “actual nature and extent” of neighborhood and quasi-community property are at the moment not identified and “will probably be decided.”
Lopez filed for divorce from the Instigators actor on August 20, Us confirmed. The Hustlers star listed the date of separation as April 26, and submitted the paperwork in a Los Angeles courtroom herself as a substitute of by a lawyer on the two-year anniversary of her and Affleck’s Georgia marriage ceremony celebration in August 2022. (The duo tied the knot in a non-public ceremony on the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas in July that 12 months.)
Information of their divorce comes after months of reviews that their marriage was on the rocks. The twosome went weeks with out being noticed collectively earlier than Us confirmed in Might that Affleck moved out of their shared dwelling in Beverly Hills. In July, neither Lopez nor Affleck publicly acknowledged their second marriage ceremony anniversary.
Lopez and Affleck’s relationship started in 2002 after assembly on the set of their ill-fated romantic comedy, Gigli. The pair have been collectively for almost two years earlier than calling off their engagement in 2004.
The couple rekindled their romance in 2021 after Lopez cut up from ex-fiancé Alex Rodriguez. In Might of that 12 months, a supply solely informed Us that the pair have been excited to provide their romance one other go.
“Jen and Ben are each very proud of every [other] and are excited to see the place the connection goes,” the insider mentioned on the time. “They’re full-on relationship and really joyful collectively.”
Lopez has beforehand been married thrice. She was married to Ojani Noa for 11 months in 1997, Cris Judd from 2001 to 2002 and Marc Anthony from 2004 to 2014. Collectively she and Anthony, 55, share two youngsters: 16-year-old twins Emme and Max.
Affleck was beforehand married to Jennifer Garner from 2005 to 2018. The previous spouses share three youngsters collectively: Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12.