Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgartner. David Fisher/Shutterstock
Kevin Costner is claiming that estranged spouse Christine Baumgartner is requesting $248,000 in month-to-month little one help funds — which she plans on utilizing for herself.
“Christine allocates 60 % of bills akin to personal coach, unallocated bank card bills, and her cosmetic surgery to the minor kids with none rationalization or foundation,” learn paperwork obtained by Us Weekly on Wednesday, June 28. The Yellowstone actor added that Baumgartner allegedly has “cosmetic surgery bills of $188,500/month” and that “the kids don’t use the companies of personal trainers, solely Christine does.”
Costner, 68, and Baumgartner, 49, share sons Cayden, 16, and Hayes, 14, and daughter Grace, 13. Earlier this month, Baumgartner claimed that the Dances With Wolves star was utilizing “public assaults” designed to “strain me to maneuver out with out at momentary little one help settlement I place,” in response to authorized paperwork obtained by Us on the time. Nonetheless, the purse designer said that she can not go away their shared house as a result of she doesn’t find the money for to take care of her household’s present way of life.
“Christine understands that sooner or later sooner or later she and the kids should transfer out of the household house,” the paperwork learn. “She can not achieve this at this early stage of the case as a result of she doesn’t have ample funding to safe housing that can guarantee the kids can keep related requirements of residing within the events’ respective houses.”
Christine Baumgartner and Kevin Costner. Jim Ruymen/UPI/Shutterstock
Baumgartner went on to assert that she presently has “no private revenue” as a “keep at house mother” and {that a} $1 million cost Costner made to her per the phrases of their prenup — which was signed when the pair tied the knot in 2004 — was deposited into an account with out her “consent or data.” Baumgartner additionally said within the submitting that she has “instructed” the funds to be returned to him.
“Kevin is attempting to drive my concession that the spousal help limitation is legitimate by advantage of my ‘acceptance’ of those funds,” she alleged. “I consider that Kevin’s purpose is to get me to faucet into this cash so he can argue that I’ve waived my proper to problem the premarital settlement.”
Costner, nevertheless, said in Wednesday’s paperwork that the $51,940 a month he’s presently paying her for little one help — plus one hundred pc of the kids’s medical insurance, their extracurricular bills, daughter Grace’s personal faculty tuition and Cayden’s automotive prices — needs to be a “cheap” quantity.
Us confirmed in Might that Baumgartner filed for divorce from Costner after nearly twenty years of marriage, citing irreconcilable variations as the rationale for his or her cut up. Costner alleged earlier this month that Baumgartner is refusing to vacate the premises, however Baumgartner refuted the claims, together with her lawyer arguing that Costner had no authorized proper to kick his estranged spouse and their youngsters out of their longtime household house.
“This RFO (request for order) seeks to kick Christine and their three kids out of the home that the kids have lived in for his or her whole lives,” John Rydell, Baumgartner’s lawyer, wrote in courtroom paperwork obtained by Us on the time. “Though the authorized foundation for Kevin’s request to kick his spouse and youngsters out of their house is all however nonexistent, that is nonetheless a matter of essential significance for Christine.”