Jennifer Lopez’s divorce petition reveals the depth of her estrangement from Ben Affleck

Jennifer Lopez had requested to get her old last name back as part of her divorce filing from estranged husband Ben Affleck.

The 55-year-old star filed for divorce without a lawyer on Tuesday, August 20. It was also the couple’s second wedding anniversary.

In her petition, seen by DailyMail.com, Lopez requests that she change her name back to Jennifer Lynn Lopez and drop the name Affleck altogether.

Lopez, who was recently spotted wearing her wedding ring, listed April 26, 2024, as the divorce date.

The couple did not sign a prenuptial agreement before tying the knot in July 2022, insiders have revealed. It is Jennifer’s fourth failed marriage and Ben’s second.

The 55-year-old star filed for divorce without a lawyer on Tuesday, August 20, which also marked the couple’s second wedding anniversary

Lopez, seen here last Sunday, has requested that her name be restored to Jennifer Lynn Lopez

In the absence of a prenuptial agreement, their individual income from the past two years, whether from film productions or major brand deals, would be joint property.

Jennifer, who reportedly has a net worth of $400 million, has released four films since marrying Ben, including her $20 million self-financed project This Is Me… Now: A Love Story, which chronicles the couple’s rekindled romance.

In 2023, she launched her Delola cocktail line and was set to embark on a world tour to promote her latest album, This Is Me… Now, but it was cancelled just weeks before its premiere so she could “focus” on her family.

Oscar-winner Ben, who reportedly has a net worth of $150 million, recently starred in the films Air (2023) and Hypnotic (2023). He also recently wrapped production on a sequel to 2016’s The Accountant.

To make matters even more complicated, Jennifer and Ben were working on the new movie Unstoppable.

Affleck is producing the project alongside Matt Damon, but Lopez is one of the film’s stars.

Jennifer is not requesting alimony and has asked the judge to deny it for Ben as well.

Ben Affleck dropped a major hint months ago that he was done with wife Jennifer Lopez, who filed for divorce on Tuesday. Seen in 2021

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According to a new report from Peopleit was alleged that Lopez also had a hand in Afffleck focusing more on his children.

According to the site, the Atlas actress motivated the Argo director to be more “family-oriented.”

During their two-year marriage — which Ben hinted at a few months ago — the kids were “really important to them,” the insider said.

Lopez has twins, Max and Emme, 16, with ex-husband Marc Anthony, while Affleck has three children with ex-wife Jennifer Garner: Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12.

But the way they spent their time with the children, it was said, divided them.

While JLo enjoyed going shopping and attending fun events with the little ones, Affleck preferred to stay home.

“They’re very different people,” the source added of Affleck and Lopez. “She’s very open and wants to go out, and he’s more introverted and is happy to hang out at home.”

Jennifer was indeed often seen traveling with the kids, as she has a busy schedule.

And she probably wanted to take all five kids with her on her summer tour, which has been postponed until 2025.

Ben may not want to go out as much anymore because he’s just not as social as Lopez.

In an interview with Kevin Hart earlier this year, Ben said he was “shy”: “I’m a little shy. I don’t like a lot of attention,” he told the comedian.

“That’s why people see me and they’re like, ‘Why is that guy always angry?’ Because someone had their camera pointed at me and I was like, ‘Okay, here we go.'”

“You got a resting b***h face,” Hart joked. “B****h? Now,” Affleck replied, feigning anger.

‘I have a hard face. People project something onto me that I don’t feel about myself at all.’

Lopez has twins, Max and Emme, 16, with ex-husband Marc Anthony, while Affleck has three children with ex-wife Jennifer Garner: Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12 (pictured in March)

The divorce filing came exactly two years after the couple’s extravagant second wedding in Georgia on August 20, 2022

Meanwhile, Lopez is reportedly feeling “disappointed and sad” after filing for divorce from Affleck, but she knows it’s “time to move on.”

The superstar was engaged to Hollywood actor Ben in the early 2000s and the couple reconciled in 2021, before tying the knot in two ceremonies in 2022.

A new report suggests that Jennifer has found the time right to move on with her life. A source told PEOPLE: “[She knows] it’s time to move on’ for several reasons

“She’s very disappointed and sad, but Ben hasn’t given her any sign that he wants to continue their marriage. He hasn’t shown any commitment or interest in making their marriage work. It’s gotten to the point where she’s just left to fend for herself.”

The divorce filing came exactly two years after the couple’s extravagant second wedding in Georgia on August 20, 2022. An insider told the publication that the significance of the date was not lost on Jennifer.

They said, ‘She was done waiting and the date she did that says it all… [The divorce filing] gives her control over the process… It’s good she did it…

“She tried really hard to make it work and now she’s sad about it.”

The source stressed that the former couple’s blended family is a priority, adding: “The children are the top priority, as always.”

The singer/actress wrote an entire album – ‘This Is Me… Now’ – inspired by the couple’s renewed love affair and even made a film version of it.