Celebrity Divorce

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are finally officially single, but there are strings attached ... they are both prohibited from making their kids public spectacles in front of the paparazzi.

The divorce -- 2 years in the making -- became official Monday. The former couple agreed to use their "best efforts" to avoid unwanted publicity when it comes to 6-year-old twins Emme and Max. The document makes it clear ... it's in the best interest of the kids to shield them from "aggressive news organizations and photographers."

JLO gets primary custody and Marc gets the kiddies 7 days a month. But get this ... when Marc has the kids, the nannies must be present.

Translation: Mommy gets reports on Daddy.

Not surprisingly ... neither ex gets spousal or child support.

And there's a bonus for the kids ... Marc and JLo each get to take the kids trick-or-treating separately ... which means the lucky twins will be doubling up on full size candy bars.

Zoe McClellan says she just learned a hard lesson about success ... sometimes your ex will come
after you with a vengeance, especially when money is on the line.

Zoe just signed on as the new star of "NCIS: New Orleans." According to legal docs -- obtained by TMZ -- she'll be raking in $45K an episode.

Zoe's hubby, J.P. Gillain -- a struggling actor -- just filed for divorce, and she doesn't think it's coincidental. J.P. is asking for joint custody, and she suggests a motivating factor is that he wants child support.

Zoe is also incredulous ... because she goes on and on in the docs saying J.P. has never been a hands-on dad, to the point where he doesn't know how to put their 18-month-old Sebastian to sleep.

Zoe used to be rolling in dough, starring in "JAG" for years. But when the show went off the air she couldn't get an acting job -- she was a life coach and J.P. waited tables.

Zoe wants to move to New Orleans to shoot the show, and she's now asking the judge for an emergency order giving her temporary full custody, but J.P. strongly objects.

Sara Evans' ex-husband has become a country music cliche ... fighting with his ex, dodging an arrest warrant, and so deep in debt his main assets are a couple dozen chickens.

Craig L. Schelske filed docs in his bankruptcy case, listing a mountain of debt and a sorry, short list of assets. For starters he owes Evans $333K. Lots of other debts as well.

Now the assets ... 25 chickens (valued at zero) and 2 bags of chicken feed. And then there's 60 DVDs, 3 silver coins and 40 books, all worth a grand total of $100. And of course there's a 12-gauge shotgun, a rifle and a hand gun.

He also lists 4 vacuum cleaners and a card table. As for cars -- he has a Ford F-250, a Chevy pickup, a Chevy Tahoe and a Honda 4-wheeler.

As for the warrant -- it seems Craig stopped paying Sara child-related expenses, so the judge slapped him with a contempt citation and made him a wanted man.

You may remember ... Evans and Schelske went through a brutal and ugly split ... he claimed she exposed their kids to drugs and alcohol on her tours ... she claimed he was banging the nanny and was obsessed with porn.

Sum 41 singer Deryck Lavigne Whibley has officially erased Avril Lavigne from his life, and ... more importantly, his signature -- a judge just granted his name change.

The rocker’s request to drop Avril's name was stamped on Thursday. As we first revealed, Whibley had secretly taken her name during their 2006 marriage ... to become Deryck Jason Lavigne Whibley. Deryck's name change was filed a few months after Lavigne married Nickelback frontman Chad Kroger ... which is probably not a coincidence. The fact Deryck has a new fiancée probably influenced the change too.

Melanie Griffith thinks she's a better parent than Antonio Banderas -- a dog parent, that is -- and she's dead set on getting custody of their three dogs in the divorce ... TMZ has learned.

As TMZ first reported, Griffith filed for divorce on June 6 after 18 years of marriage to Banderas.

Child custody won't be an issue -- their daughter turns 18 in September -- but sources close to Griffith tell TMZ she is angling for custody of their three dogs. The former couple has one terrier mix and two shepherd lab mixes they adopted last February.

Our sources say Melanie is the better dog owner between herself and Antonio ... and the pooches mean the world to her.

Alec Baldwin wanted to play Benjamin Franklin in a new movie ... and we didn't find out from an agent, a publicist or a movie studio ... we found out from the divorce docs of a TV soap star.

"The Bold and the Beautiful" star Katherine Kelly Lang finalized her divorce this week from hubby Alex D'Andrea ... and in the docs, she gives up any claim to movie projects D'Andrea was involved with ... including the Franklin flick.

In the section marked Community Property Awarded Transferred to Respondent (Lang's ex), it mentions Walter Isaacson's book about Ben ... which had been optioned by D'Andrea, Alec and William Baldwin for a TV mini-series.

According to the docs, the three pitched the idea as a co-production with Sony, but it never found a home. Their option ran out and the rights reverted back to Isaacson because "Sony could not find a network to co-finance and/or broadcast the project."

Sherri Shepherd can keep talking for a living about anything she wants ... except the identity and location of the woman who is carrying her baby ... so a judge ordered today.

Shepherd was a no-show in court today, but her estranged husband Lamar Sally was there to argue that their entire divorce should be sealed. The judge did not rule on the case as a whole, but did order both sides to stop talking about their surrogate -- either her identity or location.

As we first reported ... Lamar is concerned a publicity crush at the hospital will endanger the baby.

Nonetheless, he has revealed the due date is July 28.

Marc Anthony has been ordered to pay ex-wife Dayanara Torres more than $28,000 in child support ... more than twice what he was paying but WAY less than she wanted.

TMZ broke the story ... Torres claimed she was living a peasant lifestyle with her $13K a month in child support for their 2 kids ... and wanted it upped to $113,000.

A judge just ruled ... Anthony must now pay Torres $28,680 a month. She also gets an increase in her yearly vacation allowance -- from $6K to 12K.

In the order the judge notes Anthony raked in more than $600,000 A MONTH in 2014. Now get this ... he's making LESS than he did previously, when he pulled in more than $12 MIL a year.

And this is interesting ... Anthony has been giving $25,000 a month to charity in 2014. Now that's what he roughly has to pay Torres.

Good news, bachelors ... ex ‘Teen Mom‘ star Jenelle Evans is officially divorced and kinda single -- if you look past the fact she's knocked up again with a new sucker boyfriend.

Anyway, point is -- if you like pot-smoking, punch throwing, extremely fertile chicks ... act fast!

Melanie Griffith is still carrying Antonio Banderas in the form of a tattoo on her right arm ... and she flat out showed it off yesterday in Santa Monica.

As TMZ first reported, the "Working Girl" filed for divorce from Antonio after 18 years of marriage. Griffith wants custody of their daughter and spousal support.

A referral to a good tattoo removal doc wouldn't hurt either.

However the divorce plays out, it's clearly going to take some time for Melanie to entirely erase Antonio from her life.

Melanie Griffith may have filed the divorce papers, but the symbol of marriage to Antonio Banderas is still firmly in place.

The "Working Girl" star left a hair salon in Beverly Hills on Monday, sporting what looks like a wedding band on her left ring finger.

As TMZ first reported, Griffith pulled the plug on her marriage to Antonio after 18 years. Griffith wants spousal support. She's also asking for custody of their minor child ... who turns 18 in September.

'Teen Mom 2' star Jenelle Evans is officially back on the market -- because her divorce was just finalized from estranged hubby Courtland Rogers.

A Brunswick County clerk confirms Jenelle showed up this morning in North Carolina to make it official -- she got her old name back too.

Although most people thought the relationship would last forever ... Evans and Rogers had a rough go of it -- last year they were both arrested on drug charges and domestic violence.

Jenelle was famously in what has become an epic fight with one of her homegirls. The video never gets old.

The estranged wife of transsexual porn star Buck Angel has a solid argument on why she shouldn't have to pay spousal support -- under Louisiana law, they can't be married, because "she" never became a "he"-- i.e., no dong.

Angel is an award-winning transsexual porn star who famously appeared on "The Howard Stern Show" in 2006 (Google it, it's amazing).

According to court docs ... Buck's estranged "wife" Elayne claims Buck never sealed the reassignment deal with the proper apparatus. Elayne claims since Buck doesn't have to tuck, the union was never legal because Louisiana does not recognize same sex marriages.

Buck is gunning for $2K a month in spousal support. He's also alleging Elayne secretly moved $500,000 out of their joint account.

Comedian Aries Spears' ex-wife is walking away from their 2-year marriage with some high-priced parting gifts that could cost him over $400K right off the bat ... TMZ has learned.

Spears' divorce from Elisa Larregui was finalized May 23 and according to court docs obtained by TMZ ... he's obligated to buy her a home "OF [HER] CHOOSING" in Florida -- with the very specific price range of $300K to $375K.

The ex "MadtV" star also has to buy Elisa a 2014 Cadillac Escalade ... and again the devil's in the details. According to the docs, the whip MUST have a backseat entertainment center and a sticker price of $60-$75K.

Elisa -- who already has full legal and physical custody of their 4-year-old son, Jordan -- also gets $5,000 per month in child support.

Take our word for it, you did not have as eventful of a week as Jeremy London.

London's wild seven-day stretch began a week ago Friday, when he finalized his divorce from wife Melissa Cunningham.

London was arrested in 2012 for alleged domestic violence ... he agreed to take anger management classes and in return the charges were dismissed.

Fast forward to Tuesday, when London married his girlfriend, Juliet Reeves. That would have been the highlight of his week ... if she didn't give birth to their son Wyatt just two days later.