Harold Hamm, the chief executive of oil driller Continental Resources who is embroiled in a bitter divorce, offered to pay his former wife $974.8 million, but she rejected a hand-written check, lawyers for both sides said on Tuesday. Both Arnall, who was formerly Sue Ann Hamm and resumed using her birth name after the divorce, and Hamm have appealed the November divorce judgment. "We are seeking clarification of the court's November 10 order at today's hearing and can not accept any payments, pending such clarification, without jeopardizing Ms Arnall's rights on appeal," Barber said in an email 
 
 Arnall, a former Continental executive who was married to Hamm for 26 years, contends that her award of around $1 billion in cash and assets was inadequate and allowed Hamm to keep the lion's share of a fortune her lawyers valued as high as $18 billion. Hamm had already paid his former wife more than $20 million during the divorce proceedings. Hamm's appeal contends that the $1 billion award was too steep. But Arnall, an economist and a lawyer who held executive positions in the company, has said she is entitled to more.
– If nothing else, the not-so-amicable divorce negotiations between oil tycoon Harold Hamm and ex-wife Sue Ann Arnall have produced one of the most remarkable checks you'll ever see. On Jan. 5, the CEO of Continental Resources wrote one out to Arnall for $974,790,317.77, reports CNNMoney. Arnall, however, won't cash it because she says her ex amassed his much bigger fortune over the course of their 26-year marriage, and thus she is entitled to more. She has appealed the settlement, and now Hamm has filed an appeal of his own—he says plummeting oil prices have taken a toll on his net worth, reports Reuters.