Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban: Inside the Divorce Filings on Salary, Alimony, and Custody

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have turned their split into something Hollywood almost never delivers: a clean, mostly drama-free divorce. Court filings out of Davidson County, Tennessee lay out just about everything, and it all reads like two very wealthy, very busy people who planned this for a while and didn’t want a mess.

Where things stand

Per the Marital Dissolution Agreement, the marriage ended over irreconcilable differences. Kidman filed for divorce, and the paperwork pegs their official separation date as September 30. A New York matrimonial attorney not involved with the case, Marilyn Chinitz, told People the whole thing looks pre-baked:

They worked this out long before they ever made their announcement.

Spousal support? None

Both stars make over $100,000 a month, so they’re not exactly waiting on checks from each other. The agreement says neither will pay alimony, both waive spousal support forever, and each is on the hook for their own debts.

Neither party shall pay any amount and/or form of alimony or spousal support to the other.

Custody, schedule, and the rules of engagement

Kidman gets primary residential custody of their daughters, Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret, who are 17 and 14. The parenting plan is extremely specific, and yes, a little wonky, but here’s the gist:

• The girls spend 306 days a year with Kidman and 59 with Urban.
• Urban gets alternate weekends: Saturday 10:00 a.m. to Sunday 6:00 p.m.
• No mid-week parenting time.
• Father’s Day goes to Urban every year.
• Thanksgiving alternates yearly.
• Christmas/winter break: in odd-numbered years, Kidman has the entire school break; in even-numbered years, they split it equally.
• Spring break: Kidman gets even-numbered years; Urban gets odd-numbered years.
• Mother’s Day and Easter go to Kidman.
• Summer runs on the regular schedule.
• If they hit a stalemate on a child-related decision, Kidman has final say.
• Both have to take a parenting seminar within 60 days and agree not to bad-mouth each other to family; they’re supposed to encourage the kids’ relationship with the other parent.

Child support: prepaid and done

There’s no ongoing child support in the traditional sense because Urban prepaid his obligations. The agreement says he has already covered his share of nanny and childcare costs, private school, and extracurriculars through each child’s 18th birthday and high school graduation. Day-to-day expenses fall to whichever parent the girls are with at the time. The document also notes both parents have more than enough separate assets to support the kids independently.

Assets, real estate, and the creative stuff

This is the part that usually gets messy, but not here. They don’t have joint assets, including real estate. The properties they do have aren’t even titled in their personal names; they’re held through trusts, LLCs, and similar entities. Each keeps whatever those entities already assign to them, free and clear of claims from the other.

Same deal with money and work: they keep their own bank and investment accounts, plus their creative projects. Both waived any claim to the other’s assets. Personal property like art, clothes, and cars stays with whoever owns it now. No disputes on the record.

The takeaway

For a high-profile breakup, this is unusually tidy. The plan is clear, the money is separate, and the kids’ schedule is mapped within an inch of its life. Fair? Too generous? Weirdly efficient? Tell me what you think.