Cheryl Cole’s divorce from Ashley Cole could be swift and painless, observers say.
The UK Mirror claimed the Geordie pop star could be permanently free of football star Ashley in time for the World Cup in June.
A top family lawyer, Julian Hawkhead, said: “The impression is they are both keen to get on with it. They are both commercially minded people with strong commercial people in the background advising them.”
Cole has so far confirmed a separation of her three-and-a-half year marriage only, however, in the wake of a sex-texting scandal involving Ashley.
The newspaper reported Hawkhead said a potential divorce would be “relatively painless”.
“A case where it’s young people and no children and both with lots of money, it should be an easy divorce,” he said.
The partner at Stowe Family Law, in North Yorkshire, said the pair may have begun negotiating a settlement in private and could divorce within three to four months.
He said the Coles’ assets, including their £6million ($9.3million) Surrey mansion, could be divided. “I think Ashley probably earns a bit more than Cheryl so she might want a share of his earnings but she has good earnings in her own right. I think she’ll just want to get on with her life.”