Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck Formally Unmarried After Divorce Agreement

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are formally divorced and legally unmarried.

As of Friday (Feb. 21), the Los Angeles County Awesome Court docket finalized the dissolution in their marriage, confirming their felony unmarried standing, consistent with Related Press. The couple reached a divorce agreement on Jan. 6.

Court docket paperwork published that Lopez, 55, and Affleck, 52, settled via mediation in September, effectively fending off the long courtroom battles that experience plagued different high-profile superstar divorces.

Lopez and Affleck first started relationship in 2002 after assembly at the set of Gigli. They were given engaged however referred to as off their marriage ceremony in 2004. Just about 20 years later, they rekindled their romance in 2021 and tied the knot in a Georgia rite the next 12 months.

“I by no means idea that he and I’d get again in combination,” Lopez instructed Billboard in February 2024, forward of the discharge of her movie This Is Me… Now: A Love Tale, which chronicled their rekindled dating. “I simply couldn’t surrender on the concept that there used to be one thing superb available in the market for me, even if it were given actually unhealthy — and it did every now and then. I at all times believed deep, deep down not to surrender totally.” 

The singer and actress filed for divorce from Affleck about two years after their Georgia marriage ceremony, record their separation date as April 26, 2024. In her preliminary submitting, she cited “irreconcilable variations” as the cause of their cut up.

In keeping with agreement paperwork received by means of Billboard, the pair agreed on phrases to divide their homes and belongings. Each waived spousal enhance and agreed to similarly cut up the felony charges in their negotiation, which used to be mediated by means of Laura Wasser. Lopez may even exchange her felony identify again from Jennifer Affleck to Jennifer Lopez.

Lopez used to be in the past married to Ojani Noa, Cris Judd, and Marc Anthony, with whom she stocks two kids. Affleck used to be in the past married to Jennifer Garner, with whom he stocks 3 kids.

In October 2024, Lopez mirrored on her emotions about being unmarried once more following her cut up from Affleck.

“I believe to myself, ‘F—, this is precisely what I wanted,’” she instructed Interview. “Thanks, God. I’m sorry it took me see you later. I’m sorry that you simply had to do that to me such a lot of occasions. I will have to have discovered it two or 3 times in the past. I am getting it … I’m now not searching for any one, as a result of the entirety that I’ve carried out over the last 25, 30 years, being in those other difficult eventualities, what can I f—ing do when it’s simply me flying alone … What if I’m simply loose?”