What Happens When You Divorce the Same Person Twice?

Off again on-again couples make for interesting television plots, but if you are old enough that the financial investment in a relationship exceeds the cost of a pair of movie tickets to take your sometimes sweetheart out on a date, then getting back together with your ex can be as complicated as breaking up.  Florida’s celebrity gossip pages abound with stories of couples who got divorced and then got back together.  Perhaps the juiciest of these stories involves Phil Collins and his ex-wife Orianne Cevey living in a Miami mansion with their two sons and getting entangled in an epic battle over their house when they broke up again.  More recently, televangelist Benny Hinn and his wife Suzanne are breaking up for the second time.  The couple married for the first time in 1979 and divorced in 2010 in California, but then they reconciled and remarried in 2013.  When they filed for divorce this year, they had been living in separate residences in Hillsborough County for some time.  If you and your spouse married, divorced, remarried, and are divorcing again, contact a Boca Raton divorce lawyer.

Learn From Your Mistakes and Sign a Prenup the Second Time

Every time a divorce becomes final, it means that the court has distributed the couple’s marital property.  Therefore, anything that you owned after your first divorce becomes your separate property.  If you remarry your ex-spouse, and the second marriage also ends in divorce, the only property that the court will divide is the assets and debts you got during your second marriage.  In the case of Benny and Suzanne Hinn, the court will only divide the property they acquired between 2013 and 2024, during their separate marriage.  Everything Benny owned in 2012 is still his separate property, and everything Suzanne owned in 2012 is still her separate property, even if some of these assets were once marital property during the couple’s first marriage.

Remarrying the same spouse after a divorce is a learning opportunity.  Benny and Suzanne Hinn must have known this, as their second wedding was a much publicized event.  News sources did not say whether they signed a prenup the second time, but you should if you remarry your ex-spouse.  If the court awarded you the marital home in your first divorce, it is your separate asset, but if your ex moves in when you remarry, the court could consider it marital property again, or your ex could claim so much of its value that the simplest solution is for your ex to keep the house the second time you divorce.  Even if you were foolish to marry your spouse the first time and even more foolish to marry her the second time, at least you have both become more mature in the intervening years, and you should have the wisdom to sign a prenuptial agreement the second time around.

Contact Schwartz | White About Divorcing the Same Person Twice

A South Florida family law attorney can help you if you and your spouse can’t live with each other but can’t live without each other.  Contact Schwartz | White in Boca Raton, Florida about your case.

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