Country Music’s Jason Aldean Files for Tennessee Divorce

Country music star Jason ‘Aldean’ Williams has filed for divorce in Tennessee, putting an end to his 11-year marriage with Jessica Ann Ussery.

With recent awards for Academy of Country Music’s Male Vocalist  and Vocal Event of the Year  (2013), American Country Awards’ Touring Artist of the Year  (2012), and Country Music Association’s Album of the Year  (“My Kinda Party” – 2011), to name only a few accolades, Jason Aldean is one of the top earning country music artists.

The award-winning vocalist is also the child of divorced parents. Aldean’s early guitar-playing knowledge is credited to the musical instruction his father first shared with him when he was a young boy. Father and son would play their guitars together during what we would call parenting time today. In retrospect, the father-son quality time really had a positive influence on young Jason!

Aldean Seeks Absolute Divorce in Williamson County, Tenn.

Both born in Georgia, Aldean and Ussery (age 33) began dating back in high school. The sweethearts were married on August 4, 2001, in their home town of Macon.

At age 36, and firmly on track with a platinum country music career, Aldean filed his complaint for divorce in the Chancery Court for Williamson County, Tennessee, south of Nashville. He is seeking an absolute divorce. (Learn more about the different grounds for absolute divorce in Tennessee.)

What grounds were cited in support of the Williams divorce complaint? The “parties are experiencing irreconcilable differences.” Perhaps a portion of their irreconcilable experiences may have resulted from Aldean’s casual romantic indiscretion back in 2012. More specifically, last September Aldean was caught on camera with former American Idol  contestant Brittany Kerr. The kissing singers seemed to be quite cozy with each other at a trendy Sunset Strip saloon in Los Angeles. Needless to say, when celebrities are caught doing things they should probably not be doing, the news and the pictures tend to emerge quickly.

Although the petition for divorce has the couple’s separation date as April 26 (which is the date Aldean filed), some sources place their separation earlier in January of this year.

Tennessee Child Custody and a Permanent Parenting Plan

Ussery and Aldean have two young daughters together, so child custody will be an issue in this divorce with a parenting plan forthcoming. The couple’s only children are Keeley Ann, age 10 and born on Valentine’s Day, and her younger sister Kendyl Alden, now a 5-year-old.

In his petition, Aldean anticipates a separation and parenting agreement, something the couple will negotiate as part of their divorce. Absent any objection, their dissolution agreement and permanent parenting plan will be incorporated into the Tennessee court’s final decree of dissolution.

Absolute Divorce in Memphis, TN

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