Reese Witherspoon, Jim Toth divorce: inside Hollywood's blockbuster split
foxnews.comReese Witherspoon filed for divorce from her estranged husband, Jim Toth, in Nashville, Tennessee, just days before their 12th wedding anniversary.
Documents obtained by Fox News Digital showed that the Academy Award-winning actress cited "irreconcilable differences" in her filing to end her marriage with Toth, a former top talent agent with CAA.
Peter Walzer, celebrity divorce lawyer and founding partner at Walzer Melcher & Yoda, gave more insight to the commonly used term a couple may use when ending a union. "The term ‘irreconcilable differences’ is used in most states to denote the grounds for a no-fault divorce," Walzer told Fox News Digital. "It means the parties do not get along." Celebrity divorce lawyer Charlotte Christian echoed Walzer's statement. "Irreconcilable differences mean that the parties' likes and dislikes have become so far apart that they can no longer live together in harmony, and they have made the decision to live apart and break up the union," Christian said.
Witherspoon and Toth's split may have been a shock to some, but sources told The Sun that the catalyst to end their relationship was allegedly his "midlife crisis" after he left his high level gig in Hollywood. "Jim is the one who has changed massively just in the last few years," the source said. "His personality, his attitude and his whole take on life really changed when he got out of the agency business and decided he was tired of that stuffy world and being in the service business in general." The source went on to claim in part, "He was so done with the Hollywood rat race and leaving this marriage is the logical conclusion of that journey, because Reese isn't going anywhere." Fox News Digital has reached out to Witherspoon's rep for.
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