Sia is opening up about her divorce settlement, wherein she is going to pay $42,000 monthly in child support to her ex Dan Bernad.
“I see my settlement has been picked up by the press. I’m a sober working mom attempting to buy peace,” the “Low-cost Thrills” singer shared in an X post on Tuesday, April 7.
Sia continued, “I even have primary custody of our son and since i’m the one parent earning income i still must pay California’s incredibly high child support.”
“This has been a horrific yr however it taught me how one can navigate incredibly difficult situations, prioritize my family and never absorb other people’s negativity,” she continued, happening to share a quote from poet Alexander Pope: “To err is human, to forgive is divine.”
Us Weekly confirmed on Monday, April 6, that the “Chandelier” singer agreed to pay Bernad $42,000 monthly for the care of their 2-year-old son, Somersault. In keeping with court documents obtained by Us, Sia, 50, began the monthly payments on April 1 and can proceed to pay the five-figure arrangement until Somersault turns 18.
In addition to child support, Sia can pay for her son’s private school tuition, mutually agreed extracurricular activities, medical health insurance and mutually agreed uninsured health costs, per the documents.
Sia and Bernad will share joint legal custody of their son from May, in keeping with the docs, and can split holidays. Sia may have Somersault on Mother’s Day, Easter and at Christmas. Bernad may have the infant on Father’s Day and various Jewish holidays, including Yom Kippur, Passover and Hanukkah. The exes will rotate custody for Thanksgiving, Halloween and other holidays.
Sia filed for divorce from Bernad in March 2025, just two years after they tied the knot in a ceremony hosted at fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana’s villa in Portofino, Italy.
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The Australian singer cited irreconcilable differences within the divorce filing and requested legal and physical custody of their son.
Later in 2025, Bernad filed court documents requesting greater than $250,000 a month in spousal support. Per the docs, Bernad said he’d been out of labor since April 2025, when he “received a letter from Sia’s company providing me with notice that it might be terminating her funding” of their company, Modern Medicine. Bernad claimed he was living on “monthly payments from Sia” that expired in October 2025.
“I even have no income, no real property, no retirement and little or no funds in my checking account. I cannot maintain this litigation with out a significant contribution by Sia toward my attorneys’ fees and forensic accounting fees. Sia has the greater ability to pay for each of our legal fees,” Bernad said within the docs. “I due to this fact ask the Court to level the playing field and order Sia to contribute a minimum of $300,000 toward my attorney’s fees and costs and $200,000 toward my forensic accounting fees and costs.”