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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: Why do the spouses of celebrities get so much money in the case of divorce when it's clear they wouldn't make near so much money had the relationship never happened?
gpt
In the eyes of the court, a marriage means two people becoming one person.

Imagine a blue crayon marries a red crayon. The law no longer sees them as two separately colored crayons but as one purple crayon. A divorce would be like breaking the crayon in half. It doesn't turn back into a red and blue crayon but, instead, is two broken halves of a purple crayon.

I could explain it much more precisely, but you did come to ELI5.