Pete Davidson and Elsie Hewitt have finalized a formal co-parenting agreement for their 8-month-old daughter, the former couple confirmed in a joint statement reported by TMZ on July 31, 2026, months after the two ended their relationship.
“We are cooperatively coparenting our daughter whose well-being remains our top priority, and we are fully committed to working together to give her love from both of us,” the pair said.
- Davidson and Hewitt confirmed a formal co-parenting arrangement for their daughter, Scottie Rose Hewitt Davidson, in late July 2026.
- Scottie was born Dec. 12, 2025, and was named in part after Davidson’s late father, Scott Matthew Davidson, a New York City firefighter who died in the Sept. 11 attacks, according to WSOC-TV.
- The couple had dated since March 2025 and confirmed the pregnancy that year, according to NBC News.
- Family courts and pediatric groups agree a workable co-parenting plan rests on two things: how decisions get made and how time gets divided — not on how the adults feel about each other.
What actually makes a plan like this work
Strip away the famous names, and what Davidson and Hewitt described is close to the textbook version of a functioning parenting plan. Maryland’s court system, which publishes some of the most detailed public guidance on the subject, breaks every plan into two core pieces: legal custody, meaning how parents will make major decisions about a child, and physical custody, meaning when the child is with each parent. Courts note that the more specific a plan gets on both fronts, the less two parents end up back in front of a judge to resolve disagreements.
The American Academy of Pediatrics’ published guidance for families navigating separation adds the piece that determines whether a plan survives contact with real life: conflict, not separation itself, is what does the damage. The AAP tells parents to shield kids from disagreements as much as possible, keep rules and discipline consistent across both households, and support rather than undermine the other parent’s authority in front of the child. Most children adjust within two to three years when parents manage to do this.
None of that requires parents to like each other. It requires a plan specific enough that neither one has to guess, and enough restraint that the child never becomes the messenger. Davidson and Hewitt’s statement, four sentences long, hits both notes: a shared priority, named plainly, with no blame attached.
Neither party has released the specific custody schedule, and the agreement’s full terms remain private, which is standard for arrangements between unmarried parents.
