Bill Gates and his wife of 27 years, Melinda, have already begun sharing of assets, with Bill transferring $1.8 billion worth of stocks to her.
The transfer, according to reports, was done the day they announced their divorce.
The transfer was like a deposit by Bill, as the divorced couple still have assets in billions of dollars to split.
The Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, is the fourth richest man in the world with an estimated fortune of $130 billion.
Melinda is, however, expected to be the richest woman in the world at the end of the asset sharing.
Recently, the couple, to the shock of the world announced, in a joint statement on Monday, that they were parting ways.
Melinda said in court filings that the marriage was ‘irretrievably broken.’
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According to court filings, the pair’s divorce settlement has not been finalised in court but they have agreed on some of the terms of their separation, .
The Daily Mail reported that the only glimpses into their division of assets will come from Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings about how many shares they own in public companies.
Mail Online said:
One such filing on Monday revealed that Bill gave Melinda more than 14million shares of the Canadian National Railway Company worth $1.5billion. He also gave her 2.9 million shares of AutoNation.”
The shares were transferred from Cascade Investment LLC, an investment company controlled by Gates.
Bill has hired 97-year-old billionaire lawyer, Charlie T Munger, to represent him in the divorce.
