Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban’s divorce was finalized January 7, 2026 in Nashville, and the court paperwork behind it lays out, in unusually granular detail, exactly how a 19-year marriage with substantial joint wealth gets divided when both sides want to avoid a public fight. Kidman filed September 30, 2025, citing irreconcilable differences, according to Fox Business, which reviewed the court documents directly.
Custody, down to the day
The couple’s two daughters, Sunday, 17, and Faith, 14, will live primarily with Kidman, who is named the “primary residential parent” in the marital dissolution agreement cited by CBS News. Per the court filing reviewed by Fox Business, the arrangement is specific to the day: Kidman gets roughly 306 days a year with the girls, Urban gets 59, structured around alternating weekends from Saturday at 10 a.m. to Sunday at 6 p.m. Holidays are split by formula rather than negotiated year to year — alternating Thanksgivings, Kidman keeping Christmas in odd years, Urban getting Father’s Day, and Kidman keeping Mother’s Day and Easter. Tennessee court rules also required both parents to complete a parenting seminar within 60 days of the filing, a mandatory step confirmed by both Fox Business and CBS News.
No alimony, no child support, and no jointly owned property
What stands out financially is what’s absent. Court documents state “neither party shall pay any amount and/or form of alimony,” and child support was likewise set at zero, according to Fox Business’s reporting on the filing. That isn’t as unusual as it sounds for a marriage this wealthy: both parties reported individual monthly incomes exceeding $100,000, and Urban had already been covering his share of nanny costs, private school tuition, and extracurricular expenses under a prior arrangement.
The property division tells a similar story of pre-planning. Real estate wasn’t held in either spouse’s individual name but inside trusts, LLCs, or other entities — meaning it was structurally separated well before the divorce filing rather than fought over afterward. Furniture, art, and vehicles were divided “to the mutual satisfaction of the parties,” and even credit card and airline rewards points were split according to whose name the account was under, per the court documents Fox Business reviewed. ABC News Australia similarly reported a “roughly equal division of joint assets” and no spousal support obligation on either side, with Nashville Judge Stephanie J. Williams noting in the final decree that “there exist such irreconcilable difference between the parties that would render continuation of the marriage impractical and impossible.”
Kidman and Urban met in 2005 and married in 2006. Under Tennessee law, couples with minor children face a mandatory 90-day waiting period before a divorce can be finalized, which the case satisfied between the September filing and the January decree. The settlement’s clean asset lines and detailed custody calendar reflect a marriage where wealth was compartmentalized from the outset — a structural choice that, per the reporting, appears to be the main reason this divorce closed out in months rather than years.
