Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are divorced and legally single.
A Nashville judge on Tuesday issued an order dissolving the 19-year marriage of the Oscar-winning actor and the Grammy-winning country singer.
The judge said in a court filing that the couple’s settlements on splitting assets and child custody are sufficient, and granted them the divorce.
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Kidman filed for divorce in September.
The superstar split was a surprise to most of the public, but it had clearly been in the works for a while.
All the legal issues involving assets and custody had been settled and signed the day of her filing.
Tennessee requires a 90-day waiting period for couples with minor children before a divorce can take effect.
Kidman and Urban, both 58, have two teenage daughters — 15-year-old Faith and 17-year-old Sunday Rose — together.
Their divorce filing said they had “marital difficulties and irreconcilable differences”.
According to the agreement, the couple are required to “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”.
“They will not speak badly of each other or the members of the family of the other parent,” the agreement reads.
“They will encourage each child to continue to love the other parent and be comfortable in both families.”
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban were married for 19 years before their shock separation. Credit: Jordan Strauss/APNicole Kidman made her first post-divorce appearance in Paris, flanked by her teenage daughters. Credit: AAP
The plan they signed states that Kidman would be the primary residential parent to the children.
It suggested they would remain living in Nashville as they have all their lives.
Per the agreement, the former couple’s daughters would stay with Kidman for 306 days of the year while Urban would get the remaining 59 days of the year or “every other weekend” with them.
The filing states that neither parent would need child or spousal support due to their reported monthly incomes “in excess of $100,000” and lays out a roughly equal division of their joint assets.
Two of the biggest stars to come out of Australia in recent decades, Kidman and Urban met in Los Angeles in 2005 and were married in Sydney the following year.
They were red carpet fixtures throughout their two-decade relationship, with Urban joining his wife at the Oscars and Kidman attending music events like the Academy of Country Music Awards.
The couple had publicly but lovingly described some marital difficulties, yet there were still few outward signs the divorce was coming.
The marriage was the first for Urban and the second for Kidman, who was married to Tom Cruise from 1990 to 2001.
Kidman also has two older children with Cruise.
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