According to Blast, Maitland, who is well known for her role as Traci Abbott, and her husband actually have been separated since 2016. It sounds like the couple had been living apart for a while now, and the official divorce papers were just a technicality.
Neither Beth nor her husband are going after spousal support, and the exes plan on dividing up their property on their own, outside of court.
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