Hopefully will never have any experience, but I would imagine the machines would need a dollar amount assigned to them, and be figured into any split of money/property during the divorce, no? What's mine is yours and all that, regardless of who actually bought them.
Seen plenty of for sale ads on here that mention a divorce forcing sale...
Some of you guys have $30k - $50k or more tied up in a collection. Hell, even a small collection can easily be $5k - $10k. The outgoing wife is going to want her cut of that...