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A choose has dominated that Kevin Costner is to pay his estranged spouse, Christine Baumgartner, greater than $129,000 monthly to help in elevating their youngsters.
Baumgartner, 49, will obtain $129,755 monthly in little one help from Costner, 68, in line with courtroom paperwork obtained by Fox Information on Tuesday, July 11. The Yellowstone actor can be required to pay $200,000 in attorneys’ charges and $100,000 in forensic prices per the interim ruling.
Costner, for his half, filed paperwork on Monday, July 10, asking for Baumgartner to pay his attorneys’ charges amid their divorce proceedings. In response to the paperwork obtained by Us Weekly on Tuesday, the estranged pair have a listening to on the matter set for early August.
The pair — who’re the mother and father of Cayden, 16, Logan, 14, and Grace, 13 — will equally share the bills of their three youngsters’s well being care, sports activities and extracurricular actions, in line with the most recent docs. Funds will probably be made on the “first of every month” with “credit score for sums paid between July 1 and July 12,” the outlet reported on Tuesday.
In June, Baumgartner requested for $248,000 a month to assist help their youngsters, in line with docs obtained by Us. Costner, in the meantime, countered in his response that he “will earn considerably much less in 2023” as a result of his departure from the Paramount sequence and won’t be able to pay the requested quantity.
He additionally slammed his estranged partner for her spending habits claiming that Baumgartner used his bank card to fund bills for his or her ongoing divorce with out his information. In docs obtained by Us in July, Costner revealed he had “no selection” however to cut back Baumgartner’s bank card restrict to “$30,000 a month” after he discovered that his estranged spouse “started charging giant sums.”
Grace Avery Costner, Kevin Costner, Cayden Wyatt Costner, Christine Baumgartner, Hayes Logan Costner. Eric Charbonneau/Shutterstock
Baumgartner made headlines in Could when she filed for divorce from Costner after 19 years of marriage. For the reason that exes known as it quits, they’ve engaged in an ongoing and messy authorized battle over their shared residence, custody, little one help and extra.
Following their break up, Baumgartner was imagined to vacate their residence inside 30 days of submitting for divorce per the estranged couple’s prenuptial settlement. Nevertheless, the purse designer argued that she didn’t have the funds to maneuver out of their property with their youngsters. On the finish of June, a choose ordered that Baumgartner should vacate the residence by July 31.
Whereas the authorized battle between Costner and Baumgartner continues to develop tumultuous, a supply completely advised Us final month that issues have been more likely to worsen between them. “For Kevin, it’s fairly cut-and-dried,” an insider revealed on the time. “Christine needed this break up, so she ought to abide by the phrases of their prenup [stating that she] had 30 days to maneuver out after submitting for divorce. This could possibly be a bitter courtroom battle. Kevin’s a person of robust conviction and cussed to the bone.”