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Take gender away and this story has happened a million times.
As far as I am aware, the trust is an asset of the marriage under Aussie law, and is therefore included in the divorce - in UK law it's arranged that way to prevent a rich person boxing their assets before marriage to prevent them being eligible for the divorce that may happen; I think Aussie law is the same.
The $4,000 is only until the assets are apportioned, and I suspect that they will be taken into account - again, under UK law the day you file is the point at which your estate is valued, and any money spent BY EITHER PARTY is accounted for by the Judge.
A recent divorce I saw unfold had the ex-wife go on a mad spending spree to run down her savings so that she'd "get" more from her husband (the marriage ended due to her infidelity, and yet she felt he owed her more than half of the shared assets).
In the end, the court said that the split should be close to 50/50, but that as she'd spent so much money, she got practically nothing - most of what she spent was non-recoverable (holidays etc).
I laughed.
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