Kristin Cavallari & Jay Cutler’s Custody Agreement, Explained

Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler’s co-parenting arrangement and custody agreement is becoming a point of tension. Back in June, Cavallari said that she “never” got money from Cutler in their divorce. But now Cutler is hitting back at those claims — calling them “borderline slander.”

The duo, who were married from 2013 to 2022, have three children together: Camden, Jaxon, and Saylor. In a June episode of her reality show Honestly Cavallari: The Headline Tour, she discussed their current relationship. But later, Cavallari said that a “wonky” edit misconstrued their dynamic. She decided to clarify things in a June 24 episode of her podcast, Let’s Be Honest.

“I am so sick of talking about my marriage because it's like ... let's all move on,” Cavallari said at the time. “It's important for me to say I've never gotten a penny from my ex-husband ... It's important for me to clear up because that's why I work so hard is because I'm supporting three children.”

“Everyone thinks that my ex-husband gave me money. I didn't get any money. I haven't gotten any money. I didn't get any money in the divorce. I don't get anything for child support,” Cavallari continued, explaining the finances of their divorce. “That was never even on the table, to be quite honest with you. I’ve never even wanted it, so that's why it was important to me to clear that up on the show.”

In August, Cutler countered her claims on his podcast, Take It Outside. “Let’s think about this logically. ‘Not a penny.’ OK. Married for, I don’t know, seven years or so, three kids,” he said. “You can go and see how much I made in the NFL. It’s online. You can see the contract from year to year and the total amount at the end of 12 years.”

“In the state of Tennessee, if we would have went to the judge and been like, ‘Hey, he's going to keep every single dollar over the past seven years and you're going to get nothing,’” he continued. "There's not a judge in the state of Tennessee that would have signed that. They would be like, ‘No, this isn't – this isn't right. This isn't legal. Not happening.’ So, there's that. B, she has a lawyer. I have a lawyer. Is her lawyer really going to be like, ‘Fine, you get zero dollars. He gets to keep all the money that was made over the seven years.’ Absolutely not.”

Cutler said that Cavallari’s depiction of their divorce was “reckless.” He said, “I think it’s borderline slander to insinuate that there was zero dollars split during the marriage that each side got. It’s insanity. It’s completely false, completely untrue.”

“I'm not going to get into those exact numbers, but I can guarantee you it's definitely not zero dollars,” he added.

During the June podcast, Cavallari also explained their custody agreement. According to her, their arrangement has evolved over the years, going between split custody to her having full custody. “I have my kids most of the time,” she explained of their current status. “There's another part in this [Honestly Cavallari: The Headline Tour] episode ... where the edit is a little wonky because I say, ‘You know, I got my kids full time’ and then it's like, ‘So I only have every other weekend.’ Let me just clear this up, I did have my kids full-time for a while and now I have them except for every other weekend.”

“I'm not going to get into the reasoning [and] the legality around it, but I thought that was weird,” she added. Previously, Cavallari described co-parenting as the “ultimate test in life.”