Kevin Costner’s estranged spouse Christine Baumgartner is reportedly asking for an additional $46k per 30 days as she claims that the actor has “ample funds to pay his help and in addition to pay the attorneys’ charges and prices for each events”.
Christine, 49, at present receives $129K a month, however has now requested $175,057 per 30 days in baby help. The pair have been engaged in a bitter battle since Christine filed for divorce in Could 2023. New authorized paperwork allege that “forensics has decided that [Kevin’s] common money flow obtainable for help for the two-year interval of 2021 and 2022 was $19,248,467 per yr ($1,604,039 per 30 days). Based mostly on this money flow, and a 50/50 parenting time share, the rule baby help, which is presumptively appropriate beneath California regulation, is $175,057 per 30 days”.
© Lionel Hahn“Christine brings this request to be able to uphold these Household Legislation rules and to guarantee that the events’ three minor kids will proceed to get pleasure from the approach to life that has been made doable by Kevin’s substantial earnings and wealth,” the brand new paperwork proceed, reporting that Kevin had “varied accounts and entities” with “a complete of $17,293,117 in money equivalents as of June 30, 2023, giving him ample funds to pay his help and in addition to pay the attorneys’ charges and prices for each events”.
Kevin and Christine married in 2004 and welcomed three kids: sons Cayden, 16, and Hayes, 14, and 13-year-old daughter Grace.
© Joe MaherThe continuing divorce has additionally seen Kevin, 68, deny claims of extramarital affairs. Christine’s attorneys had beforehand requested any documentation that reveals “bills paid by you, or any individual at your request or in your behalf, referring to any extramarital romantic relationships.”
In response, the Yellowstone actor denied participating in any “extramarital romantic relationships,” and, through his attorneys, added: “[Kevin] doesn’t for a truth know if [Christine] engaged in any ‘extramarital romantic relationships’ earlier than separation and, in that case, whether or not she spent any of his cash or charged any bills in furtherance of her affair(s) on bank cards he paid.”
© Jeff KravitzChristine, who’s mom to 3 of Kevin’s seven kids, beforehand accused her husband of “withholding proof,” “stonewalling,” and being “evasive” in relation to his funds.
Purse designer Christine filed for divorce in early Could after 18 years of marriage however the pair have been repeatedly clashing over the phrases of their 2004 prenuptial settlement and baby help funds.
Alongside the month-to-month baby help funds, The prenup additionally agrees that Christine would obtain a $1.5 million payout ought to they divorce, nevertheless she dangers forfeiting the cash by difficult the divorce settlement.
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