The divorce proceedings are officially underway for Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler and apparently they’ve already gotten ugly.
According to court documents obtained by PEOPLE, Cavallari began looking for a new home as early as November 2019, and she says Cutler did not object to her doing so. In March, she says they “realised the attempt to reconcile was not working and knew a divorce was inevitable.”
Once they returned home from their family trip to the Bahamas and were social-distancing together in their home outside of Nashville, Cavallari says she told Cutler she had found a new house for herself and their kids. According to the filing, “The settlement negotiations were not going well, and she decided she would need to move out.” But she claims Cutler refused to release the money from their joint account as leverage in their custody battle.
Cavallari says Cutler told her “his attorney was going to tell their business manager to not release the funds,” which she claims is Cutler’s idea of “punishing her for not accepting his offer” of a settlement, according to the filing.
The Laguna Beach star insists she “has the necessary resources” to buy the property in Franklin, Tennessee, “in cash” and signed a contract for the home on April 27. But the next day, according to the filing, Cutler “attempted to intimidate” her “into accepting his parenting plan,” telling her he would block her access to the money and refusing move out of their current house unless she agreed to his requests.
Cavallari is asking for full custody of sons Camden, 7, and Jaxon, 5, and daughter Saylor, 4, while Cutler, is requesting joint.
In her filing, the reality star confirms she and Cutler — who tied the knot in 2013 — have had issues for the “last several years.”
