Jennifer Lopez requests removal of surname “Affleck”

Jennifer Lopez requests removal of surname “Affleck”

Lawyer talks about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez's divorce
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Jennifer Lopez wants to remove “Affleck” from her surname and Ben Affleck‘s divorce.

In new court documents filed on Thursday, August 21, and obtained by We weeklyLopez, 55, applied to change her name back to Jennifer Lynn Lopez.

The “Jenny From the Block” artist also revealed the reason for her split from Affleck, citing irreconcilable differences. Lopez also stated, according to the documents, that she does not want to be awarded spousal support for herself or Affleck, 52.

In addition, Lopez stated that she wants to separate the couple’s assets and debts, but the “exact nature and extent” of the joint and quasi-joint property is currently unknown and is “being determined.”

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The word “Bennifer” may bring to mind memories of frosted lip gloss and butterfly clips, but everything comes back into style eventually. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez reunited nearly 20 years after their romance first took the world by storm. The couple first came together in 2002 on the set of the ill-fated film “Gigli.” The film (…)

Lopez filed for divorce from instigator Actors on August 20 Us confirmed. The Hustlers The star gave the separation date as April 26 and filed the paperwork herself in a Los Angeles court on the second anniversary of her and Affleck’s wedding in Georgia in August 2022, rather than going through a lawyer. (The couple married in July of that year in a private ceremony at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas.)

The news of their divorce comes after months of reports that their marriage was falling apart. The two had not been seen together for weeks before Us confirmed in May that Affleck had moved out of their shared Beverly Hills home. In July, neither Lopez nor Affleck publicly announced their second wedding anniversary.

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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

Lopez and Affleck’s relationship began in 2002 after they met on the set of their ill-fated romantic comedy. GigliThe couple were together for almost two years before breaking off their engagement in 2004.

The couple rekindled their romance in 2021 after Lopez split from her ex-fiancé Alex RodriguezIn May of the same year, a source exclusively told Us that the couple was excited to give their romance another chance.

“Jen and Ben are both very happy together and are excited to see where their relationship goes,” the insider said at the time. “They are fully dating and very happy together.”

Lopez was previously married three times. She was married to Ojani Noa for 11 months in 1997, Chris Judd from 2001 to 2002 and Marc Anthony from 2004 to 2014. She and 55-year-old Anthony have two children together: 16-year-old twins Emme and Max.

Affleck was previously married to Jennifer Garner from 2005 to 2018. The former spouses have three children together: Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12.

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