divide up
verb
- separate
Wiktionary
verb
- To divide, particularly into separate shares for distribution.
“divide up the cake into 5 equal parts”
“Grace and her twin brother Gilbert (Kodi Smit-McPhee) lost their mother during birth, and their alcoholic father during their hardscrabble childhood. The pair are divided up by social services, Grace sent to one side of the continent, Gilbert to the other.”