Jodie Turner-Smith claimed that her estranged husband, Joshua Jackson, owes her youngster help and spousal help amid their divorce.
Turner-Smith, 38, alleged in new courtroom paperwork obtained by Us Weekly on Monday, December 23, that Jackson, 46, has not paid her any youngster help since information broke in October 2023 that they parted methods. She is requesting he pay her $8,543 per 30 days retroactive to the date of her preliminary submitting. (TMZ was first to report the information.)
The Unhealthy Monkey actress additionally requested that Jackson pay her $28,641 a month in spousal help whereas their divorce continues to be pending. (She initially requested the courtroom to take spousal help off the desk however has seemingly modified her thoughts.)
She is asking that the courtroom order the Dawson’s Creek alum to pay her $250,000 to cowl her lawyer charges and different prices as they proceed to hash out their authorized cut up.
Turner-Smith claimed that Jackson “promised to always support me” and “ensured” her that she would “not have to fret about monetary safety for our daughter if we ever separated as a result of he stated he understood how tough life might be as a Black girl and a single mom.”
She argued within the docs that Jackson made more cash than her throughout their four-year marriage and accused him of piling up lawyer’s charges by dragging out their divorce.
Turner-Smith alleged that the Physician Odyssey star is “reneging” on his “promise” to financially defend her and their 4-year-old daughter. (The previous couple welcomed their youngster in April 2020.)
Us confirmed in October 2023 that Turner-Smith filed for divorce from Jackson after 4 years of marriage. She cited “irreconcilable variations” as the explanation for the breakup and listed the date of separation as September 13, 2023.
Turner-Smith, who married the Mighty Ducks actor in 2019, famous within the preliminary docs that she was in search of joint custody of their youngster.
Regardless of hitting a bump of their authorized proceedings, Turner-Smith has been constructive about her coparenting expertise with Jackson over the previous yr.
“It’s an adjustment interval for anybody after they cut up up with somebody, since you’re used to being along with your youngster on a regular basis,” she advised Glamour in an interview revealed in October. “However no person palms you a handbook. Everybody’s attempting to determine it out. Every mum or dad has a distinct life, and particularly if the explanation why you’re splitting up is as a result of you might have completely different lives, it’s solely additional difficult by the way you’re going to coparent.”
The next month, Turner-Smith advised Entertainment Tonight that coparenting comes all the way down to pondering “about your youngsters” always. “Whenever you’re parenting within the public eye, all the pieces that you simply do — finally, there’s a report of it,” she defined. “You don’t need your youngsters to learn something and suppose something.”
She added: “It’s nearly — heart the kids and that’s all you are able to do. No person will get all the pieces proper however no less than when you’re targeted on the suitable factor, you’re gonna do your finest.”
Jackson — who dated Lupita Nyong’o from fall 2023 to October of this year — has remained quiet about his and Turner-Smith’s ongoing divorce. In September, he did share a uncommon glimpse at his life as a woman dad.
He exclusively told Us in September that he couldn’t decide the very best factor about being a mum or dad. “It’s not an element; it’s the entire thing,” Jackson gushed. “It’s each single day. She is a pleasure.”
Jackson famous that his daughter influences each facet of his life. “I’ve a 4-year-old. She’s at school. I must work right here, and I need to have the ability to be, like, a dad,” he defined. “That’s actually truthfully my essential precedence.”
Being near house is what drew the actor to his newest function on Physician Odyssey. “I actually needed to do one thing the place it was lighter, the place I didn’t must go residence as a head case each night time, brooding and heavy,” he added.
Us Weekly has reached out to Jackson’s staff for remark.