Brittany Cartwright Hit With $35K California Tax Lien on Home Shared With Jax Taylor

California's Franchise Tax Board filed a state tax lien of $35,239.88 against the Valley Village home Brittany Cartwright shared with estranged husband Jax Taylor, according to documents obtained by DailyMail.com. The lien was filed June 12, 2024, against the couple's 3,765-square-foot, five-bedroom property, which is valued at roughly $1.9 million.

The documents state that "further interest and fees will accrue" until the lien is paid off. The number is only going up the longer it sits unresolved.

Cartwright, 35, and Taylor, 45, are cast members of Bravo's "The Valley" and formerly of "Vanderpump Rules." They bought the home in May 2019, just weeks before their wedding. Cartwright posted about the purchase at the time, calling herself "SO blessed" and noting they were about to get married, move into their first house together, and start filming season 8 of "Vanderpump Rules" all in the same stretch.

Brittany and Jax announced in late February 2026 that they were separating after nearly five years of marriage. They share a three-year-old son, Cruz.

Cartwright has said she's been living in an Airbnb since the split. She told Andy Cohen on "Watch What Happens Live" in April that she's still without a permanent place of her own. On the "Not Skinny But Not Fat" podcast that same month, she laid out the financial arrangement she and Taylor have been operating under since separating: Taylor pays the mortgage, while she covers the rest of the household bills.

"Jax pays the mortgage. I pay all the bills," Cartwright said, according to the podcast. She added, "We have everything split up." She also said she's covering their son's school expenses, insurance, and car payments, despite having put down comparable money to Taylor when they originally bought the house.

That arrangement raises an obvious question neither party has publicly answered: whose responsibility is the tax lien. A state tax lien tied to a jointly owned property doesn't automatically default to one spouse over the other. It depends on whose income or tax filings triggered the lien in the first place, information that isn't in the public record here.

DailyMail.com reported it reached out to Cartwright's representatives for comment and was told they declined to respond. There's no indication from the available documents whether the lien stems from Cartwright's taxes, Taylor's, or a joint filing. There's also no public confirmation of whether either party has moved to pay it down since the June 2024 filing date.

The home sits in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, in a neighborhood that includes properties belonging to other Bravo personalities, including Tom Schwartz, Katie Maloney, Tom Sandoval, and Ariana Madix. The proximity has made the area something of a hub for reality-TV castmates whose personal lives play out on camera and then again in public records.

What happens next depends largely on the couple's ongoing separation proceedings, which have not resulted in a finalized divorce settlement or public asset division. Until that's sorted, or until the lien is paid, the debt sits attached to a home neither Cartwright nor Taylor currently seems to be living in together, with interest quietly stacking on top of it.