The Hillsborough County court system officially recorded the judgment as a “Final Judgment Non-Contested Dissolution of Marriage” on November 24, signalling the end of an uncontested divorce proceeding. In such cases under Florida law, the petitioner needs only to assert to the court that the marriage is “irretrievably broken,” without requiring proof of fault from either party.
The trajectory of Suzanne and Benny Hinn’s relationship spans decades. The couple originally married in 1979, when Benny was an itinerant evangelist and Suzanne’s father, Roy Harthern, served as pastor of Calvary Assembly of God, a prominent megachurch in Winter Park near Orlando. Benny Hinn later chronicled their meeting in his autobiography, “He Touched Me.”
After Suzanne filed for divorce in 2010, the pair reconciled and remarried in 2013 at Trinity Broadcasting Network’s Holy Land Experience theme park in Florida—a symbolic location for a couple whose lives have been intertwined with televangelist circles.