Madonna and Guy Ritchie, part 6

I have noticed in my reading and research that Madonna’s divorce from Guy Ritchie presents an amazingly compact nugget of family law information. Their situation presents an example from which to answer questions about divorce, if we assume the hypothetical that the divorce was here in Oregon. I hope you can see the same wealth of knowledge that this news story presents to me. I have used celebrity cases such as Alec Baldwin and Britney Spears to educate TV audiences about how “regular” divorces can parallel the issues that famous people also experience.

6) Would you expect that Guy Ritchie will receive spousal support from Madonna, and how is spousal support figured? No, I would not expect that he would. Even though he is not as high an income-earner as she is, he is still fully self-sufficient. Self-sufficiency is the standard for spousal support. Guy will be able to afford even a very affluent lifestyle on his own income and on the investment income from the lump sum he is likely to receive from Madonna. Also, he was wealthy before he met her and he enjoyed a high standard of living even before the marriage, so he likely does not need her to supplement him after the marriage in order to maintain the same lifestyle he enjoyed before and during the marriage.