Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25355646-20150103235209/@comment-1894786-20151112000619

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: They're not divorced. Gold has been referred to, on numerous occasions, as Belle's ex-husband.... they are divorced. Again, there's no possible way for them to be legally divorced at this point unless he magically divorced her off-screen after the whole "allowing her to be with Will" thing.

They are separated, nothing more. They don't have to be legally divorced for her to consider him an ex, they just have to be broken up.