Kevin Costner’s spouse, Christine Baumgartner, filed for divorce in Could after 18 years of marriage. Courtroom paperwork have since revealed that Baumgartner has requested $248K month-to-month in baby help for his or her three youngsters.
Baumgartner is asking for $248K a month to help the ‘accustomed life-style’ of her and Costner’s youngsters.
In response to Folks, Baumgartner claimed that the overall requested is “lower than the quantity wanted to take care of the kids of their accustomed life-style.” She didn’t request spousal help however did ask that Costner cowl 100% of the kids’s non-public faculty tuition, extracurricular actions, and healthcare bills.
In beforehand filed court docket paperwork, Costner had already agreed to pay $38,000 in baby help month-to-month along with masking faculty, extracurricular, and healthcare bills.
Costner, whose estimated web price is round $250 million, reportedly has a gross month-to-month earnings of $1,537,000. His 2022 earnings was reportedly $19,517,064, with household bills popping out to $6,645,285, not together with taxes. Costner’s web earnings in any case bills and taxes was a reported $7,595,520.
Costner and Baumgartner have filed for joint custody of their three youngsters: Cayden, 16, Hayes, 14, and Grace, 13. The pair cited “irreconcilable variations” as their cause for searching for a divorce.
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Contentions within the break up haven’t been restricted to the dispute over baby help.
Baumgartner has apparently refused to depart their shared Santa Barbara dwelling amid the divorce proceedings, regardless of the pair’s prenup specifying that she would have 30 days to vacate the premises after submitting for divorce.
Baumgartner is refusing to depart Costner’s home in California, though he has apparently ‘gone above and past’ to financially help her to find a brand new dwelling, agreeing to contribute $30,000 month-to-month in direction of a rental dwelling for Christine on high of $10,000 to assist with transferring prices. In response to court docket paperwork, he has already paid her $1 million. Nevertheless, Baumgartner mentioned that she couldn’t entry these funds “with out jeopardizing [her] authorized rights” within the case.
In response to Folks, a lawyer representing Baumgartner has claimed that Costner has “no authorized foundation” to drive her out of the house. The lawyer claimed that Costner was trying “to kick Christine and their three youngsters out of the home that the kids have lived in for his or her total lives.”
“Though the authorized foundation for Kevin’s request to kick his spouse and kids out of their house is all however nonexistent, that is nonetheless a matter of essential significance for Christine,” the lawyer mentioned.
A consultant for Costner claimed that it was “disingenuous” to deliver up the couple’s youngsters. “This has nothing to do with the youngsters. The youngsters’ basis is strong. That is all about Christine. Kevin has gone above and past in offering Christine the required means to discover a appropriate place for her to maneuver,” mentioned the supply.
Paperwork filed by Costner state that Baumgartner has refused to maneuver “in an effort to drive Costner to comply with ‘numerous monetary calls for.'” Her attorneys just lately wrote the next assertion: “Christine understands that sooner or later sooner or later, she and the kids should transfer out of the household dwelling. She can’t achieve this at this early stage of the case as a result of she doesn’t have enough funding to safe housing that can guarantee the kids can keep comparable requirements of dwelling within the events’ respective houses.”
As the first caretaker of her three youngsters, it looks like Baumgartner is decided to take care of her youngsters’s life-style regardless of her impending divorce. “Christine doesn’t have the monetary assets to proceed to supply them with a comparable life-style whereas they’re in her care with out the quantity of help that she is requesting,” her attorneys famous.
Jessica Bracken is a author dwelling in Davis, California. She covers leisure and information for YourTango.
