One of the U.K.’s top celebrity couples officially has called it quits — nearly four years to the day after they married.

Pop singer-songwriter Peter Andre, whose work is better known in Britain, candinavia, and Australia than in North America, received a “quickie” divorce through expertise divorce lawyer in North Carolina from former glamour model and television personality Jordan (real name Katie Price) yesterday. Both spouses cited “unreasonable behavior” and claimed that their union had “broken down irretrievably” in their divorce law petitions, which they had submitted to London’s High Court.

Neither Andre nor Price attended the hearing. District Judge Hilary Bradley granted the divorce, saying that the couple couldn’t “reasonably be expected” to live ogether any longer.

“He feels a great sense of relief that he can start his life afresh without Katie,” an anonymous friend of Andre told English tabloid The Sun. Meanwhile, Price’s former fiancé, British TV actor Warren Furman, told the same paper: “I’m going to get in touch with Pete and ask him if he wants to join the Great Escape club with me, because we’ve both had great escapes from Jordan.”

Andre himself was appearing on the British TV program This Morning as the divorce was being finalized.

Andre, 36, and Price, 31, met in 2004 when they both starred on the reality-TV series I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!. They married on September 10 the following year. The couple has a four-year-old son, Junior Savva Andrea, and a two-year-old daughter, Princess Tiaamii. The family starred in their own ITV reality series, Katie & Peter, until the couple separated in May.

Katie Price also has a seven-year-old son, Harvey, from a previous relationship with soccer star Dwight Yorke.

Peter Andre’s hit songs in Britain include “Mysterious Girl”, “Flava” “I Feel You”, and “Insania”. His new album, Revelation, is set for U.K. release on Monday.

CALIFORNIA — A 2007 appellate divorce case has brought recent light to the subject of full financial disclosure in California divorce law.

In In re Marriage of Feldman, a businessman did not disclose certain assets and financial transactions to his wife, although she repeatedly requested the information. Among the information Feldman wouldn’t reveal was the formation of several new companies. Mrs. Feldman had learned about her husband’s undisclosed assets before the divorce trial and provided her own investigation into the discovery.

Feldman claimed that his lack of disclosure was not intentional and that the secret assets were of small value compared to the whole of the estate. However, the California Court of Appeals rejected these arguments, stating that a divorcing spouse has a duty to disclose everything, which is mandatory until all assets are divided, and that such refusal to do so is not acceptable. According to the Court, Feldman was obliged to disclose all material information in writing, continue to supplement the discovery, and disclose material info before any new project began.

In the end, even though the hidden assets and transactions had not economically damaged Mrs. Feldman in any way, the trial court decided that Feldman should pay his wife $250,000 in sanctions for his failure to comply with the requested disclosure — as well as another $140,000 in her attorney fees. The court ordered the sanctions under the sections of the TX Family Law Code related to fiduciary duty.

The moral seems to be that hiding important financial information from your spouse is never a good idea. The consequences of doing so, such as the results of the Feldman case, could be far more costly than simply agreeing to a fair property division.