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Kidman and Urban Finalize Divorce, Agree to Co-Parenting Plan for Teen Daughters
Nashville, TN – After nearly two decades of marriage, Hollywood star Nicole Kidman and country music icon Keith Urban have officially finalized their divorce. The split, finalized on Tuesday, January 6th, in Tennessee’s Davidson County Circuit Court, includes an amicable co-parenting agreement for their two teenage daughters, Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 15.
According to court filings obtained by USA TODAY, both parties, aged 58, have waived their rights to spousal support and reached a comprehensive parenting plan. The agreement, signed by Circuit Court Judge Stephanie J.
Williams, outlines that the daughters will primarily reside with their mother, spending 306 days a year with the “Babygirl” actress. They will spend every other weekend with their father.
The estranged couple also established an annual holiday schedule to ensure both parents share time with their children.
Kidman and Urban will share joint responsibility for major decisions regarding their daughters while they are minors. Sunday Rose is set to turn 18 on July 7th.
USA TODAY has reached out to representatives for both Kidman and Urban for comment.
The divorce was granted based on Kidman’s complaint filed in September, citing “irreconcilable differences” that made the continuation of the marriage “impractical and impossible.” Judge Williams also noted that the couple had made “adequate and sufficient provision for the fair and equitable settlement of property rights.” The permanent parenting plan was approved, deemed to be “in the best interest of the parties’ minor children.”
Property Division and Confidentiality
The final divorce decree states that Kidman and Urban’s personal property has been “divided to the mutual satisfaction of the parties.” Each retains the rights and benefits, as well as the associated costs, from their individual creative works. They are responsible for their own debts, trusts, and financial accounts, with each covering their own attorney’s fees.
A key aspect of their agreement is a “mutual desire and intent to maintain confidentiality with respect to their financial and business affairs.” The filing also mentions existing “operating agreements and other written agreements” detailing the division and transfer of jointly owned real property.
Holiday Schedule for Daughters
The parenting agreement outlines a clear holiday schedule. Sunday and Faith will spend Easter and Mother’s Day with Kidman, and Father’s Day with Urban. The split of holidays such as winter break, spring vacation, and Thanksgiving will alternate between odd and even-numbered years.
Specifically, in odd-numbered years, Kidman will have Faith for the entirety of her winter vacation. In even-numbered years, Urban will have parenting time until December 26th, after which Kidman will take over.
In the “unlikely event” of a disagreement on a major decision for either minor child, Kidman will have “final decision-making authority.”
Court documents also reveal that Urban has “prepaid all child support obligations owed to [Kidman]” as per the child support guidelines. This includes monthly child support amounts, as well as his share of nanny and other childcare-related expenses, private school expenses, and extracurricular expenses for the minor children until their high school graduation.
Urban signed the parenting agreement on August 29th, followed by Kidman on September 6th.
Separation Preceded Divorce Filing
Kidman filed for divorce on September 30th, just one day after news of the couple’s separation became public. Her complaint, signed September 29th and obtained by The Nashville Tennessean, confirmed that the two had been living in separate Nashville homes.
Kidman and Urban, both 58, first met two decades ago in Los Angeles and married a little over a year later near Sydney, Australia. They celebrated their 19th anniversary on June 25, 2025.
Kidman was previously married to Tom Cruise from 1991 to 2001, adopting two children, Isabella “Bella” Cruise and Connor Cruise, during that time. She later reflected on the maturity difference in that relationship, telling Vanity Fair in 2013, “I was a child, really, when I got married. And I needed to grow up.”
Following her split from Cruise, Kidman met Urban in 2005, reportedly at the G’Day USA Arts Gala. She recounted Urban’s romantic courtship to People magazine in 2019: “It was my (38th) birthday, and he stood outside with gardenias at 5 a.m. on my stoop in New York.
That is when I went, ‘This is the man I hope I get to marry.'” She concluded, “I believed by that point he was the love of my life.”