According to Christine Baumgartner, her ex-husband Kevin Costner isn’t paying his fair share of child support, and she believes that the court-ordered amount of $129,000 a month isn’t sufficient.
Baumgartner’s legal counsel has recently submitted paperwork requesting the court to revisit their prior judgement on how much Costner is expected to pay in order to ensure that the standard of living the children experience while they are with Baumgartner is comparable to the standard of living they enjoy when they are with their father.
According to the documents that ET was able to obtain from the court, Baumgartner’s argument is that because their children “fly on a private aircraft to go on luxury vacations when they are with their father, the Family Code dictates that Kevin should pay sufficient child support to Christine so that the children can go on comparable vacations when they are with her.”
According to the documentation, “this is true even if the child support payments are also beneficial to Christine’s standard of living.” “A monthly income of 175,057 dollars will not be adequate to recreate Kevin’s lifestyle; but, it will be sufficient to enable her to offer a living for the children that is substantially equivalent to Kevin’s lifestyle. Because of this, Christine’s request ought to be granted, and the order need to be made effective going back to the first of July.
The children that Kevin Costner and Jennifer Baumgartner have include a girl named Grace, who is 13, and two boys named Cayden and Hayes.
Baumgartner had requested that the court provide her a child support payment of 248,000 dollars each and every month when she first filed for divorce in May. The judge’s decision to order Costner to pay the sum of $129,000 was handed down in July. According to the judgement, Costner and Baumgartner will each be liable for financing fifty percent of the costs associated with the child’s medical treatment, as well as the fees associated with attending a private school and participating in any extracurricular activities.
Baumgartner is asking the court, in her most recent petition, to “make an additional award of attorney’s fees in the amount of $575,000 and expert costs in the amount of $280,000.”
According to the documentaries, Kevin Costner had around $19 million in accessible cash flow between the years 2021 and 2022 as a result of his participation in Yellowstone and his upcoming picture Horizon. According to the paperwork, since he has access to so many resources, he ought to be responsible for paying Baumgartner’s expenses along with a monthly sum of 175 000 dollars.
This most recent request for child support comes shortly after Baumgartner requested that the court force the star to produce “all statements, receipts, invoices, canceled checks (front and back), and other documents…relating to any extramarital romantic relationships.” This request was made as part of Baumgartner’s mission to investigate the actor’s finances in the midst of their contentious divorce battle.
Costner, who is 68 years old, has said that he “has no responsive documents for ‘extramarital romantic relationships’ in which he engaged because he engaged in none.” This is in response to the request that was made. In addition, Costner has said that he “does not know for a fact if [Baumgartner] engaged in any ‘extramarital romantic relationships’ prior to the separation and, if so, whether she spent any of his money or charged any expenses in furtherance of her affair(s) on credit cards he paid.” Baumgartner has denied that she had any extramarital affairs throughout their marriage.
It is interesting that she mentions “extramarital romantic relationships” in her demand for the production of documents, which were attached as exhibits in her recent 112-page court filing. This is because a former tenant of Costner’s who was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with Baumgartner denied the allegations back in June.
Baumgartner demanded in the legal paperwork that she submitted to the court on Monday that the court order the Yellowstone star to give up bank and credit card statements as well as contracts showing “anticipated income.” In addition to this, she said that Costner has been “evasive” about his money and that whatever records he has provided have been “deficient.” She also stated that this is the case.
