Can any one here savvy in marriage laws enlighten me? Technically, if their kids are all grown up and legal, that the wife worked full time during marriage, he doesn't owe her anything does he?
Child Support is only for kids under 18. Alimony is mostly for mothers who stayed at home.
I mean yeh they might have to seprate some assets (houses, car,etc) but I really hope she won't receive any income from his part.
Marriage is straight up scam for billionaires...
That's not how any of this works in Washington where they got married.
She married him before he created Amazon.com.
Marriage is a contract that basically joins you as one financial entity; even with the much misunderstood "pre-nup" in general the income you make, the things you create or buy, are also your spouses. 50/50. Most states aren't strictly like that but Washington is.
MacKenzie Bezos is worth just as much as Jeff was, but he obviously gets credited for it.
If she wants to, she can "Take half." And yes that literally means he'd have to figure out a way to compensate her for half of his massive wealth which is mostly not liquid, but rather in shares of his company. It sounds like she probably won't go for that but you can believe she'll be as fabulously wealthy as she wants to be until she dies.
I doubt she could get alimony because she won't need it at all, but for normal non-rich people?
If your wife makes a fraction of what you make, or isn't employed, even if you have no kids you can owe alimony. I've known people who were married less than 2 years where the guy had to pay alimony. Granted it was only for 2 years, but they still had to pay.
Divorces are basically law suits when they aren't amicable. Otherwise 2 people CAN work things out on their own, and a judge will grant the divorce as long as it's not obvious that someone isn't being taken advantage of or threatened. But if the person you are divorcing, or who is divorcing you is an asshole... they can file a lawsuit full of whatever lies they feel like coming up with, and you are then backed into a corner facing paying a lawyer potentially $10k+ or just paying up.