here's a sound logical reason why even after the divorce, shellie has no claims to the NBC money.    it's argued that she has a claim to it because she wrongly suffered due to george's suffering, which is logical....BUT    1) she is divorcing george before the judgement in that case  2) george is suing for damages against himself, not for both him and his wife.   3) george is the one who started the suit and is the one 'paying' for it    I think george has enough logic to insist that if shellie wants money from NBC that she should sue NBC in a separate case. but of course, shellie doesn't want to have to do that because it would be much more difficult to prove her damages than georges, not to mention her damages are much less than georges. half would simply be too much, disproportionate to the suffering george faced compared to her.