Last fall, Tia Mowry and Cory Hardrict announced they were divorcing after 14 years of marriage. I wrote at the time that “their Instagram post was the typical picture of an amicable Hollywood divorce” and that Tia seemed fine and even happy as she talked about living her truth. Now, their divorce has settled, seemingly rather quickly, and everything continues to be assertively fine. They agreed to split everything with regard to their two kids, Tia’s keeping the house, and also they’re not allowed to introduce new partners to their kids until they’ve been dating exclusively for at least six months.
‘Sister, Sister’ star Tia Mowry has officially settled her divorce, and will not pay a dime in support to her ex-husband.
According to new legal documents, obtained by The Blast, Mowry and Cory Hardrict agreed on a simple settlement that will allow each of them to help support their children together on an ongoing basis.
In the filing, the former couple agreed to share joint legal and physical custody of their two kids. Specifically, the duo will split the costs associated with raising their family — including private school tuition and fees for extracurricular activities.
Tia Mowry Keeping Family’s Multi-Million Dollar Home In Divorce Settlement
The famous actress is getting something in this deal that is quite valuable. In the agreement, Mowry will get full ownership of the family’s home in Studio City. It should be noted, that this house is worth $4.3 MILLION. According to Redfin, it “is a 4,871 square foot house on an 8,496 square foot lot with 5 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms. This home is currently off the market – it last sold on October 30, 2015, for $2,600,000. In other words, they might quite the profit since buying the home.
It should be noted, it’s possible Tia paid for the home and is just keeping it in their split.
In the end, Tia will not pay a dime in child support or spousal support.
One interesting clause in this agreement has to do with “new romantic partners.” The former couple entered an entire explanation in the agreement for when and how you are allowed to introduce a new person to the kids. Specifically, it states, “Each party is restrained from introducing the minor children to a new romantic partner until the party has been in an exclusive relationship with the romantic partner for at least six months.”
Famous Ex-Couple Agrees Not To Speak Negatively About Each Other In The Future
It continues, “Each party is further restrained from permitting his or her new romantic partner from spending overnights with the minor children are with that custodial parent during the first six months of the exclusive relationship.
Also, Tia and Cory are not allowed to speak negatively about the other one in front of the kids. The agreement spells out this as neither party shall speak “in a negative, disrespectful or derogatory manner to or about the other party in the children’s presence or within hearing distance of the minor children.” Plus, they are forced to make sure other family members and friends comply with this order.
Like that article notes, that clause about dating is interesting, but makes a lot of sense. Not that there necessarily would have been many new partners on either end, but the kids are 11 and 5 and can get easily confused by or attached to new people. Interesting wording about the “exclusive relationship,” because that likely pushes the timeline out a bit longer since often people date around a bit first before choosing one person to date exclusively. The former couple also agreed not to speak negatively about each other in front of their kids and to ensure that their other friends and family don’t either. That’s also a really good clause to get in the agreement, considering even small negative comments can have quite the effect on kids (and adults). And splitting legal and physical custody and all costs for the kids — all of this seems exceedingly, refreshingly reasonable and mature, which is nice to see because divorces often are not. The things I found a bit interesting were Tia keeping the home and not paying any spousal or child support, but maybe Cory just opted out.
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My mom introduced us to several boyfriends way too soon, so I think it’s mature to make an agreement about this for the sake of the kids.
Preach!
Same – I met a lot of people my mom dated. My kid has met one person I’ve dated in the 9 years since my divorce and even that I regret. Kids can bond quickly – esp if they don’t have a great relationship with the parent of the opposite sex – it’s best to be careful. Super impressed with this divorce agreement.
I agree Dena. I was that kid and I’ve seen it happen too often with divorced friends of mine. Guy and his kids are cool so you think you have a new family, but when it breaks up there are no financial or blood bonds so you don’t see them again.
I’m the opposite. I haven’t wanted to introduce anyone to my son, until he was old enough to tell me if it was weird. Six months is nothing, to a sexual predator, that’s grooming.
He’s 13 now, and I have great vibrators.
Every single divorce should have a 6 month agreement in place. Is it really so difficult for you to NOT introduce a new fuck?
I’m surprised they only mentioned Tia in regards to spousal and child support. I was under the impression that Cory has been the one working the most during their relationship.
I’m happy this seems to be going amicably for all parties involved. I don’t know what happened between them, but maintaining a level of peace will be helpful to all parties involved.
That’s interesting! I was under the opposite impression, that she’s the one whos been working. She has that talk show too right?
If you are referring to the Real talk show, you are confusing her with her twin sister. The twin that she was in the television show Sister Sister and the Twitches movies with where they still both get residual checks from even at times when they weren’t working as actors. They have both also separately done many shows and movies since their teens.
Where did you get that inpression?
Tia has her Sister Sister money, but she also was on The Game for years, she and Tamera did Tia and Tamera for a few years (they were also producers on that show- Tia was coached on producing from The Game), they did the Twitches movies and Tia was in the Mistletones and several reality series including her cooking show and her YouTube series.
Corey has had a few minor roles in movies over the years but he has not been working more than Tia (part of why one of the conflicts between Tia and Tamera on their series was that Tia was constantly busy and not as available to Tamera during her first pregnancy and Tia pointed out that she had to work to support her family because her situation was different from Tamera’s.)
My parents were young and irresponsible but still rarely introduced me to new partners. My father and his second wife had a whirlwind romance, volatile marriage and drawn out divorce, but to his credit I didn’t start meeting a parade of girlfriends until I was in my 20s. And then it became more like a sitcom gag it was so ridiculous.
I think that’s a smart role, and it’s put in place for the benefit of the children.
It’s nice that they have this in writing, but in my experience, it’s not so easy to enforce it.
My ex and I finalized our divorce in September (years ago) and by December he announced to our son (14 years old at that time) that he’d met the love of his life, they were planning their lives together, and she and her infant daughter would be moving in.
I didn’t have the $$$ to take my ex to court, so I let it go. Which was a wise decision, since that relationship didn’t last.
Curious, if your exes new flame’s infant daughter was his? Because if not, and he was also only three months out of your marriage with him, then man, they moved fast and it’s not surprising it didn’t work out.
Lol, no the baby girl was not his, afik. He’s not had any contact with the mom or daughter since they parted ways.
My daughter was 2 when we split. I introduced her to exactly one person, and we have now been married 20+ years. Conversely, her bio dad, like clockwork, would meet someone, disappear for 2 months, then want to introduce my daughter to his new girlfriend. Girlfriend then immediately moves in, a year later she’s gone, rinse and repeat.
Once after an argument in which I actually got to say, “I don’t need to judge (your new girlfriend), plenty of actual judges have already done the work,” he was like, “I’m a single dad, it’s not like I can date the cream of the crop!” Dude, you have your kid one day a week and do nothing else. I mean, she could have EASILY never met anyone he dated. But she was super cute and made him look like a better person than he was.
This reads like two people who still respect each other. It’s boring gossip, but it’s refreshing to see two parents acting like adults and focusing on caring for their kids instead of punishing each other. I hope they keep it up.