Turner-Smith filed for divorce from Jackson in October 2023, citing “irreconcilable differences” after four years of marriage
Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith have settled their divorce — but they continue to disagree when it comes to their daughter’s education.
The Dawson’s Creek alum, 46, and the Queen & Slim actress, 38, have agreed to the terms of their split, according to legal documents obtained by PEOPLE, though the couple has yet to agree on where their daughter, 4-year-old Juno, will be going to school. TMZ was first to report the news.
The couple has agreed that they’ll use a mediator to plan a schedule for the 50-50 custody of their daughter, that Joshua will pay $2,787 in child support and that there will be no monthly spousal support, rather a lump sum.
In addition to the terms the couple has agreed on, Turner-Smith also claims, in other court documents obtained by PEOPLE, that Jackson has pushed back on a court order regarding her making the decision tied to where their daughter will go to school.
Representatives for both Turner-Smith and Jackson did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on Sunday, May 4.
In the declaration obtained by PEOPLE, Turner-Smith said that she and her former husband “participated in a full-day mediation” with a judge in May 2024 and resolved their “temporary custody issues” for their daughter’s 2024-25 school year. Following the judge’s term with them, both Turner-Smith and Jackson later entered “into a Stipulation and Order to resolve the issue of selection of Juno’s school,” with Turner-Smith writing that it authorized her “to make the final decision” regarding their daughter’s education.
“As such, I have the clear authority to make the school selection in Juno’s best interest, and Josh is refusing to adhere to the terms of the Stipulation and Order and is depriving me of the right to select the school,” she further wrote in the document.
Turner-Smith eventually selected a school she felt “represents a stable and diverse environment where she can thrive both academically and personally,” and informed Jackson that she planned to enroll their daughter there in April, before their child was accepted. After “consistent efforts to meet and confer with Josh in good faith” and while meeting together with an education consultant, Turner-Smith stated that Jackson said he “never intended to honor” the order granting her the authority on the school selection. In late April, his legal team “challenged my decision-making authority and objected to Juno’s enrollment” at the school and expressed “concerns about drive time,” Turner-Smith wrote.
Turner-Smith is requesting $75,000 in attorney fees over the school disagreement, per the court documents.
The latest development in Turner-Smith and Jackson’s split comes over a year after the actress filed for divorce from the Fatal Attraction star in Los Angeles Superior Court on Oct. 1, 2023, after four years of marriage. Smith noted the date of separation as Sept. 13, 2023, four days after the pair celebrated her 37th birthday in New York.
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Jackson and Turner-Smith tied the knot in August 2019, and they later welcomed their daughter in April 2020.
Turner-Smith previously claimed in court documents filed in December 2024 in Los Angeles County Superior Court, and obtained by PEOPLE at the time, that Jackson had not paid child support for their daughter since October 2023.
In October 2024, Turner-Smith opened up about coparenting with Jackson in her GLAMOUR Woman of the Year cover story, explaining that things can get “complicated.”
“It’s an adjustment period for anyone when they split up with someone because you’re used to being with your child all the time,” she said. “But nobody hands you a manual. Everyone’s trying to figure it out.”
Turner-Smith added, “Each parent has a different life, and especially if the reason why you’re splitting up is because you have different lives, it’s only further complicated by how you’re going to coparent.”
Following the split, a source told PEOPLE that Turner-Smith “decided that she is done.”
“They are on very different paths in life,” the insider added at the time. “Jodie loves being a mom. She also loves working.”
They added, “It turned into an unhealthy marriage that made her unhappy. They will coparent their daughter. They want her to continue to thrive.”
