End of J Lo and Ben Affleck’s Spousal Union: Absence of Prenup

After months of speculation, she’s finally gone ahead and done it – Jennifer Lopez has filed for divorce from Ben Affleck. Apparently, there have been some major developments on the matter, including when exactly she decided to go through with it.

On Tuesday, J Lo filed legal papers in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, but they weren’t filed by a lawyer. Jennifer filed pro se which is Latin for ‘by oneself and on one’s own behalf.’

She writes the separation date as April 26th 2024. They got married in Las Vegas on July 16th, 2022; however August 20th is a date that has its own importance associated with Bennifer. This day also marks two years since their big wedding held in Georgia that was more traditional than the first one. Therefore, there appear no coincidences at all that Jen decided to submit her application today.

It is surprising to note that J Lo does not say in her documents whether there is a prenup or not; according to informed sources there are no such agreements before marriage at all.

This implies that any income or profits made by Ben and Jen would count as shared property within their marriage of nearly two years.

For instance, since tying the knot, Ben has been featured in “Air,” starred in the movie “Hypnotic,” produced “The Instigators,” and completed shooting for “The Accountant 2” recently.

While this was happening, J Lo was busy working on projects such as “Shotgun Wedding,” “The Mother,” “This Is Me…. Now—now,” and “Atlas.”

What a shocker! This marks J Lo’s fourth marriage and Ben’s second, so one can almost hear the whir of a prenup machine in their conversations; they strongly felt that this was a union made in heaven but unfortunately for them it wasn’t.

Moreover, in her divorce papers, Jennifer has given up on alimony besides denying Ben with such request from the court of law.

As a result of their lack of children, custody problems are not any issues to be dealt with.

All expectations that all finances would be wrapped up prior to filing are proven wrong by the last major twist. The husband and wife are still in the process of negotiating a financial settlement according to sources. Furthermore, the talks have become increasingly acrimonious which lead to periods when they don’t communicate.

Even though it does not matter legally who files first in no-fault states, the decision might be dictated by the public relations aspect.