The order was issued a little less than a week after Costner’s regular child support payments were significantly decreased.
The judge presiding over Kevin Costner’s divorce case today sanctioned the actor’s estranged wife and ordered her to pay a portion of Kevin Costner’s attorney’s expenses, which results in Kevin Costner having just won another win in court, although a more minor one.
He said that he was obliged to submit a request to compel because he claimed that Christine Baumgartner refused to respond, “without justification,” basic discovery. On Wednesday, the court ordered Christine Baumgartner to hand up $14,237.50 to reimburse Costner’s legal expenses. ET was able to access the legal filings that Costner filed on August 30 in Santa Barbara Court. In those documents, Costner said that Baumgartner had every chance over the course of almost three months to respond to his “straightforward discovery requests,” but he did not.
According to a previous story by ET, Costner has accused Baumgartner of using “stalling tactics” in order to drag out the contentious divorce case. Baumgartner’s allegation that she did not comprehend their prenuptial agreement when she signed it was criticized by his legal team as well. They referred to this so-called strategy as “gamesmanship of the worst sort.” Adding to that, he said that this “silly rhetoric… just reinforces the game playing.”
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Costner’s documents requested that Baumgartner be sanctioned. Costner said that the filing of the request to compel cost him the amount of $14,237.50 in attorney’s costs. The court granted Costner’s request to place an order of protection against his estranged wife exactly one week after he made it.
In the filings filed with the court, Costner is quoted as saying, “it is hoped that this [sanction] will be a deterrent to any discovery abuse on Christine’s part in the future.”
Costner was not present at the hearing on Wednesday, either in person or via the use of Zoom. Baumgartner, on the other hand, gave the impression that she was driving when, in fact, she had pulled over in order to participate in the hearing (through Zoom), which lasted about a quarter of an hour.
On September 20, there will be another hearing to resolve any other disagreements on attorney’s fees that may have arisen.
In addition, the judge’s judgment came less than a week after the monthly child support payments that the Yellowstone star was had to make were significantly decreased, going from $129,000 per month to $63,209. After 18 years of marriage and three children together, Baumgartner filed for divorce from Costner in May. The couple has three children together.
In the “contentious” child support dispute between Costner and Baumgartner, the judge in the case stated why he sided with Costner and not Baumgartner a few days after making his judgement.
