Welcome To Plathville stars Ethan and Olivia Plath finalize divorce after two years as he reveals new breakup

Welcome To Plathville stars Ethan and Olivia Plath are finally divorced, nearly two years after they announced their split. 

According to court documents obtained by the Daily Mail, the reality stars' marriage was officially dissolved in a judgment filed on February 25.

The former couple, both 27, had been apart for more than three years, as they previously listed their date of separation as February 25, 2022.

The divorce was finalized following Ethan's complaints that his ex had allegedly been dragging out the process.

He accused Olivia of wanting to prevent him from being with someone else after he announced his new relationship with girlfriend Teegan Nichols on New Year's Eve of 2024.

Ethan later updated his fans on the March 31 premiere of Welcome To Plathville, during which he revealed that he and Nichols had split following their move from Minnesota to Georgia. 

The former couple's dissolution judgment stated that there had 'been an irretrievable breakdown of the marriage relationship between the parties' in the lead-up to their divorce filing.

The judgment — which had been signed by Ethan and Olivia on February 16 — added that both parties had agreed to waive spousal support going forward, and they would be barred in the future from receiving any support.

Olivia will notably be keeping her married name, rather than reverting to her maiden name, Meggs.

In July 2024, she defended the decision to keep he married name despite her split from Ethan Plath while speaking to Us Weekly.

'My last name being Plath, it’s been that way for my entire adult life,' she told the publication. 'I got married as kind of a sheltered kid and changed my name at that time. There’s no reason why I would go back to my maiden name. I’m not that girl anymore.'

Olivia and Ethan tied the knot in October 2018, while their TLC reality series premiered in November 2019.

The series follows Ethan's family, the Plaths, a homeschooled platinum-blond clan raised in Cairo, Georgia.

Ethan's clashes with his then-wife Olivia were a major part of the reality series, and the two often feuded on camera about faith.

Olivia, who had grown up in a fundamentalist Christian tradition, regularly pushed back against the conservative faith of her husband and his family, whom he became estranged with over time. 

In the season five finale, which revealed the couple's split, Olivia said she feared her marriage to Ethan would confine her in the same way the religion she was raised with intended to.

'The faith and the world that I grew up in was a world built for men, that worked for men. And to tell me that I need to go back to a culture and a faith and a belief that told me that I was worth nothing without a husband, that in a relationship I just need to submit and say yes and cook three meals a day and praise God and it would all be fine,' she told her then-husband, who had urged her to go back to the traditions she was exposed to as a child. 'I don't think you understand the privilege you have to look at me and tell me I need to go back to that because it served you.'

Ethan replied with his belief that men and women were created with separate roles and responsibilities.

But Olivia said she wasn't comfortable with how she thought Ethan had changed over time, and she didn't want to raise children under the same religious structure that he favored.

'I'm the kid of two people whose principles matter more than a relationship with their daughter, and I will be damned if I repeat that. So yeah, it hurts that I feel like I've been committed to this relationship, and I do feel that you've made the choice for us to not be together,' Olivia replied at the time.

On Tuesday's season eight premiere of Welcome To Plathville, Ethan complained that his ex had allegedly been slowing down their divorce proceedings, which were still ongoing at the time.  

'Olivia will not call or respond, do anything,' he said on camera. 'She's purposely trying to hold me up, trying to make my life hell. I believe Olivia won't let me go because she doesn't want to let me move on to anybody else. I think that's her motive.'

He also revealed that he and his girlfriend Teegan Nichols, had since broken up, allegedly due in part to the delay in his divorce.

He said that his ongoing marital status had been 'extremely frustrating' and had affected his relationship. 

' I've had an attorney for over a year now and Olivia has ignored him, said, "I'm out of the country, I'll get back to you when I'm home." And then weeks later when she comes back, she never does anything. So he has to start over, and nothing ever has happened,' he claimed.

Ethan, who had been living in Minnesota, noted that he had moved back to Georgia to be closer to his family, but that had also put a wedge between him and Teegan.

'I knew that she was tired of long distance, and I kept telling her that I would move to Wisconsin and I never did,' he said. 'You can only tell someone so many times, "I'm going to do this," and you don't and it just doesn't mean anything.'

However, he added that he thought there was 'unfinished business' with Teegan, so he was keeping up hope that the two might reconnect in the future.