Madonna and Guy Ritchie are officially in divorce

Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie are ending their almost-eight-year marriage, a rep for the singer confirmed Wednesday.

“The main concern for Madonna and Guy are their children – the security of their children in all senses of the word and the wellbeing of their children,” rep Liz Rosenberg decared to the press. “That’s the priority for both of them moving forward. It’s a sad situation.”

The former couple, who have Rocco, 8, and David, 3, together and Madonna’s 12-year-old daughter Lourdes with ex Carlos Leon, announced their divorce in a statement.

“Madonna and Guy Ritchie have agreed to divorce after seven-and-a-half years of marriage. They have both requested that the media maintain respect for their family at this difficult time,” says the statement.

The statement says they have not agreed to a settlement.

“The judgment of the court would be to try and assess what they came in with and divide what they built up fairly equally,” said David Allison, a lawyer with Family Law in Partnership, a London firm, told the Associated Press.

Madonna, is going to continue her Sticky and Sweet tour and is set to play Boston Wednesday night and her ex husband, Ritchie is in UK to direct his latest film, Sherlock Holmes.