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Angelina Jolie Pitt says she wants her divorce from Brad Pitt finalized before the end of the year.

The declaration came in a request for a case-management hearing filed Tuesday by Jolie Pitt’s attorneys in Los Angeles Superior Court. The document says her attorneys will work with Pitt’s lawyers to ensure the actors are single again this year.

The court filing contends Pitt “has paid no meaningful child support” since the couple’s separation. It says he has failed to live up to their informal financial arrangements, and she’ll seek a court order to get retroactive payments from him.

Pitt’s attorney Lance Spiegel did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Jolie Pitt filed for divorce nearly two years ago and has primary custody of their six children.

Bill Clinton’s debut novel is a million seller after 2 months

Bill Clinton is a now a million-selling novelist.

“The President Is Missing,” a thriller co-written with James Patterson, has more than 1 million sales in North America. The book’s co-publishers, Alfred A. Knopf and Little Brown and Co., announced sales Wednesday.

The novel was released June 4 and has topped best-seller lists for weeks. Reviews were mixed, but Barnes & Noble fiction buyer Sessalee Hensley said in a statement that “The President Is Missing” had benefited from “very strong” word-of-mouth. The book’s subject has also proved timely: a potentially devastating cyberattack, which intelligence experts have called a leading concern.

Clinton, whose previous books include the memoir “My Life,” is now the rare author to have million sellers in fiction and nonfiction.