Kim Kardashian has finally been declared a single woman after a judge ruled in her favour on Wednesday afternoon in the ongoing bifurcation divorce proceedings with Kanye West.
This comes after nearly eight years after her marriage and four children with her billionaire rapper ex-husband.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Steve Cochran granted Kardashian’s motion seeking the legal status. He smoothed over some procedural objections to the move from Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, and dismissed others.
Kardashian, who appeared at the hearing via videoconference, was put under oath to make a series of declarations required for the legal move.
“Mother, I’m going to ask you a series of questions now,” said Cochran, a colorful judge who calls all divorcing parents in his courtroom “mother” or “father.
They included, “Did problems, disputes and differences cause a breakdown of your marriage?” and, “Is it your desire to become a single person?”
After Kardashian answered “yes” to all, Cochran said, “It is granted.”
The judge’s move, known as bifurcation, allows a person amid a complicated divorce to become legally single while issues of child custody and property are worked out.
Ye did not attend or take part in the hearing remotely. He had objected to the move, but Cochran overruled it. Ye fired his attorney, Christopher Melcher the day before the hearing, replacing him with Samantha Spector, who had less than 24 hours to prepare before appearing in court.
Cochran celebrated that the case was moving forward and finalised dropping West from Kardashian’s name.
Kim Kardashian, 41, filed for divorce a in February 2021. Two months later, Ye, 44, filed his response, which agreed on all the major points, including child custody. There were no property fights because a prenuptial agreement was in place.
At Wednesday’s hearing, West’s lawyer, Spector said she and Ye only wanted a series of technical issues dealt with before the single status was declared. “Mr. West has no objections to moving this forward,” she told the judge.
They included dealing with two Kardashian retirement accounts and other assets, and an agreement over the status of finances if one of them dies. Spector said Ye was also requesting that if Kardashian remarries, he has the right to put her new husband under oath for questioning.
It brings an end to the third marriage of Kardashian.
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