The news arrives a decade after rumors of marital trouble between the Palins first spread, with a representative referring to the reports as “all lies and fabrications.” The Palins, now both 55, married in 1988 and have five children. According to the Alaskan blogger who first reported the Friday filing, the document does not include the couple’s full names, instead referring to them by their initials: TMP and SLP. The divorce filing also reportedly lists the birth date of their only minor child, Trig, born in 2008.

Though the McCain-Palin ticket lost in 2008, Sarah Palin and her family continued to make headlines in the years that followed. The couple’s eldest daughter, Bristol, revealed her own pregnancy, at 17, on the first day of the 2008 Republican National Convention. Now 28, she has since starred on several reality shows — including, most recently, MTV’s “Teen Mom” franchise. Her parents have also taken reality show turns: After her failed VP bid, Palin starred in the TLC series “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” and, later, Sportsman Channel’s “Amazing America With Sarah Palin.” Todd Palin competed on NBC’s “Stars and Stripes” in 2012.

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In 2014, several members of the family were involved in a drunken brawl at an Anchorage house party that, per two stories by The Washington Post, left Todd Palin with a bloody nose and Track, Todd and Sarah’s oldest child, shirtless and “belligerent.” Track Palin told police that the fight started after a few other men were rude to his sisters Willow and Bristol, the latter of whom was accused of punching the homeowner’s face repeatedly.

No charges were filed in the Anchorage brawl, but the incident set a precedent for legal issues the family would later face. Track, an Iraq combat veteran, was arrested on domestic-violence charges three times between 2016 and 2018.