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Could Ryan Phillippe’s infidelity result in a big payday in his split from Reese Witherspoon? Under California law, that just might be the case.

When the couple wed in 1999, neither was a huge box office draw. And Phillippe still isn’t. But Witherspoon definitely is. Her latest project, “Our Family Trouble,” (oh, the irony…) is set to earn her almost $30 million, and without a pre-nuptial agreement he may be entitled to half of it.

California is a “community-property” state which means that all assets and earnings from a marriage are split evenly down the middle when there is no pre-nuptial agreement that states otherwise. The news coming out of Hollywood is that there is no pre-nup, so Phillippe could walk away with half of everything Witherspoon has made in rise to one of being one of Hollywood’s best paid actresses.

Talk about adding insult to injury…

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Now that the shock has passed, it appears that there is much more to the story behind the break-up of Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe’s split than they initially let on.

If the latest reports are correct, Reese found pictures of Phillippe and his latest fling and forced a confession of having an affair with Abbie Cornish on the set of his latest film, ‘Stop Loss,’ out of him.

Here’s the first rule of having an affair, guys (I’m looking at you, Ryan Phillippe and Craig Schelske, the soon-to-be-ex Mr. Sara Evans): if you’re going to cheat on your very hot, ultra-talented wife, don’t take pictures of yourself doing it. If you’re dumb enough to need souvenirs of your infidelity, then I can’t say I feel badly for you when you get busted.

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In what would definitely qualify as the most shocking news of the day, uber-cutie actress Reese Witherspoon and hunky husband Ryan Phillippe announced through their publicists that they were planning to separate after seven years of marriage.

Both have been publicly effusive in the past about their affections for each other, so the news that they’re splitting is quite a surprise. They say that no one thing caused the rift, but rather an accumulation over time. Like I tell my friends all the time: it’s rarely something big that ends relationships, it’s all the little stuff that builds up and never gets resolved.

We’re sad to see what was an apparent Hollywood relationship success story end badly for both Witherspoon and Phillippe. It may go without saying, but I’m going to say it anyway, and I hope that they remember throughout the divorce proceedings that there are two little ones (7-year-old Ava and 3-year-old Deacon) involved and that they try to resolve things as amicably as possible a la Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.

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