Originally published on E! Online

She will always be Jenny from the Block, but she is asking for a name change.

When Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce from her husband Ben Affleck on August 20, her documents contained a specific wish.

J.Lo – or, as she is currently legally known, Jennifer Lynn Affleck – has officially requested that her name be changed back to Jennifer Lynn Lopez, according to documents obtained by E! News.

In addition to the name change Maid in Manhattan The actress asked the state to deny her and Ben the ability to collect spousal support. According to a source close to Jennifer at NBC News, the couple did not have a prenuptial agreement, meaning the money the couple has earned in Las Vegas since their July 2022 wedding is considered community property.

Ben Affleck was out of town when Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce

As Jennifer Lopez prepared to file for divorce from Ben Affleck on August 20 in Los Angeles after two years of marriage, the “Argo” director was nowhere nearby.

J.Lo’s divorce petition, filed exactly two years after their wedding in Georgia, cites “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the separation.

News of the couple’s split came to light after months of speculation about marital troubles that began at the 2024 Met Gala in May, when the “Let’s Get Loud” singer arrived as the event’s co-chair without Ben. And Jennifer’s court documents seem to confirm those rumors, as the date of the split is listed as April 26.

E! News has reached out to representatives for Lopez and Affleck but has not received a comment on the divorce filing.

Jennifer and Ben met for the first time in the early 2000s and filmed in 2003 Gigli and 2004 Jersey Girls together. The couple dated and got engaged in November 2002, but postponed their wedding in September 2003. In January 2004, the couple separated.

After this separation, Ben married actress Jennifer Garner in 2005 and the couple had three children: Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15 and Samuel, 12. After the separation in 2015 Argo Director and Alias The couple divorced in 2018.

Jennifer married Marc Anthony in 2004, with whom she has twins Max and Esme (16), but the couple divorced in 2014. This is me … now The singer was dating and engaged to Alex Rodriguez at the time, but the couple split in early 2021 after their wedding was postponed several times.

“We tried twice in 2020. We got hit twice by COVID-19,” the former MLB player said on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in 2021. “You know, they say good things come in threes, so we hope that’s what we want to hear.”

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