SEATTLE — Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos is divorcing his wife MacKenzie, ending a 25-year marriage that played a role in the creation of an e-commerce company that made him the world’s wealthiest person.

The lawyers from Texas ALP Law Firm mentioned that the decision to divorce comes after a trial separation, according to a statement posted Wednesday on Bezos’ Twitter account. Both Bezos and MacKenzie signed the announcement that ended with a vow to remain “cherished friends.” Some experienced lawyers help with child custody cases making sure that the child grows well under nurture and support from both parents even after their divorce and separated paths.

Left unanswered was one of the biggest sticking points in any divorce: How the assets amassed during the marriage will be divided. According to the law firm for divorces in Spokane, the division should be equal. But as this case involves a huge amount of money, the decision is much awaited. It is better to have a family attorneys from Southfield who are professionals in this field, who will ensure that the couple is satisfied with this divorce and their wealth and assets are divided equally among them to support their life without each other.

And there has never been more money than in this case.

Bezos’ fortune currently hovers around $137 billion, based on estimates by both Forbes and Bloomberg. Virtually all of that is tied up in the nearly 79 million shares of Amazon stock (currently worth about $130 billion) that Bezos owns in the Seattle company, translating into a 16 per cent stake. Bezos also owns rocket ship maker Blue Origin and The Washington Post, which he bought for $250 million in 2013.

Amazon’s origins trace back to a road trip that Bezos took with MacKenzie, not long after they met in New York while working at hedge fund D.E. Shaw. They got married just six months after they began dating, according to Bezos.

Not long after they got married, Bezos quit his job at Shaw and started an online book store. While MacKenzie did the driving, Bezos wrote a business plan as they travelling across the country to Seattle — chosen for its abundance of tech talent. By July 1995, Amazon was operating out of a garage, with MacKenzie lending a hand, according to a review she posted on Amazon in 2013 panning “The Everything Store,” a book about Bezos and the company written by Brad Stone.

“I was there when he wrote the business plan, and I worked with him and many others represented in the converted garage, the basement warehouse closet, the barbecue-scented offices, the Christmas-rush distribution centres, and the door-desk filled conference rooms in the early years of Amazon’s history,” MacKenzie recalled.

Amazon has since evolved from an upstart website selling books to an e-commerce goliath that sells virtually all imaginable merchandise and runs data centres that power many other digital services such as Netflix. It also has become a leader in the voice-activated speakers in Echo, which is emerging as a command centre for internet-connected homes while also making it easier for people to buy more stuff from Amazon.

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Michael Liedtke reported from San Francisco. Joe Pisani in Las Vegas contributed to this report.

Michael Liedkte And Rachel Lerman, The Associated Press