Details emerge as Kidman and Urban finalise divorce settlement

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Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban’s divorce is finalised.

Three months after the Australian actress filed for divorce in a Nashville court, citing “irreconcilable differences”, multiple US outlets are reporting the former couple have reached a settlement agreement, which includes a parenting plan for their teenage daughters.

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, who married in Sydney in 2006, are officially divorced.

According to court documents filed in court on January 6, obtained and reported by outlets People and Page Six, Kidman, 58, and Urban, also 58, have waived all spousal and child support rights, with Page Six reporting the pair both have monthly incomes of more than $US100,000.

The agreement also states that Kidman and Urban, who are responsible for their own expenses and legal fees, will divide all property including vehicles, appliances, household furniture, personal items, bank accounts and investments, by mutual agreement, each retaining what is in their possession currently.

When it comes to daughters Sunday Rose Kidman-Urban, 17, and Faith Margaret Kidman-Urban, 15, the parenting plan stipulates that Kidman and Urban both must “behave with each other and each child so as to provide a loving, stable, consistent and nurturing relationship with the child even though they are divorced”.

The agreement mandates that both Kidman and Urban will “not speak badly of each other or the members of the family of the other parent”.

Kidman and Urban, the agreement says, will “encourage each child to continue to love the other parent and be comfortable in both families.”

The language is common in Tennessee divorce agreements, and is identical to the childcare plan that was initially submitted for a judge’s approval in Nashville in October, alongside Kidman’s petition to end the marriage.

Urban signed that parenting plan on August 29, and Kidman on September 6. Under Tennessee law, it takes at least 90 days for divorces to become final.

Both Kidman and Urban have joint responsibility for major decisions in their children’s lives, though Kidman’s home is their primary residence. According to the agreement, she has custody of them for 306 days of the year, with Urban granted 59 days.

That translates to every other weekend, from 10am on Saturday mornings to 6pm on Sunday evenings with Urban.

A hearing was scheduled for Tuesday on the matter, though Kidman reportedly waived her right to appear in court. Kidman and her daughters flew out of Sydney on Monday after spending the Christmas-New Year period in Australia.

Kidman, pictured here with her daughters in Paris in October, has custody of them for 306 days of the year.

It was Kidman’s first Christmas without Urban since 2006. That year, in June, the former couple married in a Catholic ceremony at Manly’s Cardinal Cerretti Chapel. They had met at the G’Day USA Gala in Los Angeles in January 2005, and confirmed their engagement in May 2006.

“He’s very good to me,” Kidman told reporters of Urban at a New York City gala for the United Nations Development Fund for Women. She had just corrected them when they referred to Urban as her “boyfriend”, revealing they were actually set to tie the knot.

Kidman and Urban’s separation after 19 years of marriage was confirmed on September 30, with Kidman filing for divorce on October 1.

A close family source told this masthead at the time that Kidman was “broken-hearted”. Kidman, the source said, had been attempting to keep the family together for several months for the sake of her daughters.

TMZ reported that Kidman and Urban had been living apart “since the beginning of [the northern] summer.” The former couple’s last joint public appearance was on May 8, at the 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards in Texas.

Urban accepted the Triple Crown Award that night, and mentioned Kidman in his acceptance speech, saying “I love you, baby girl”.

The camera then panned to Kidman in the crowd, showing her smiling and mouthing “thank you”. On June 26, Kidman, who was previously married to Tom Cruise, marked her wedding anniversary with Urban with a post on Instagram.

The past two years have brought many changes and challenges for the former couple. In January 2025, Urban parted ways with three of his long-serving band members, including band leader Jerry Flowers, ahead of his world tour.

Kidman, of course, had a monumental 2024, thanks to erotic thriller Babygirl and Netflix series The Perfect Couple. But that September, when she was named best actress at the 2024 Venice Film Festival for the film, she announced her mother, Janelle Kidman, had died aged 84.

Kidman on her wedding day in Manly in 2006.

“I’m in shock, and I have to go to my family. But this award is for her,” Kidman said in a statement read out by director Halina Reijn in Venice. “She shaped me, she guided me, and she made me … The collision of life and art is heartbreaking. And my heart is broken.”

Kidman, writing about her mother for this masthead in May, said she could still “hear her, feel her”, and that she was still in the midst of her grief.

“It fluctuates. It comes and goes,” Kidman wrote. “It’s an awakening in a way. It’s a shedding, and it’s a grounding for what the future will bring so that I can be the strength in the family, now that she’s not feeding me that strength.”

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