In December 2021, the divorce between Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger was finally settled. The celebrity couple did not have a prenuptial agreement in place and didn't exactly agree on property, which caused the proceedings to drag on for a decade. They also reportedly weren't in too much of a hurry to make the split official.
The absence of a prenup helped Shriver score a whopping 50% of Schwarzenegger's Screen Actor's Guild producer's pension plan. The journalist was entitled to half of the funds accumulated from 1986 when they walked down the aisle through to 2011 when she filed for divorce. It's estimated that this sum equated to millions of dollars.
Celebrity divorce attorney Raoul Felder weighed in on the matter with Hollywood Life: "If Arnold is worth $300 million, then Maria is likely to get $100 million. One-third of that was probably money Arnold earned before he got married. So she would get half of $200 million because, in the state of California, it's 50/50." Another factor that helped Shriver's case was that she stepped away from her successful journalism career to support her family.
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