Kevin Costner’s Discount of Christine Baumgartner’s Credit score Card Restrict: A Nearer Look

Kevin Costner claims he was “required” to cut back estranged spouse Christine Baumgartner‘s bank card restrict amid their ongoing divorce.

Costner, 68, defined his place in paperwork obtained by Us Weekly on Wednesday, July 5, asserting that he “agreed to keep up the established order with respect to our youngsters” as their authorized proceedings proceed. (He and Baumgartner, 49, share sons Cayden, 16, and Hayes, 14, and daughter Grace, 13.)

“Christine says I’ve not maintained the established order as a result of I cancelled one among her bank cards and since I put (a big) restrict on using the bank card she makes use of,” Costner wrote in his declaration.

Costner famous that he has “continued to pay the entire kids’s bills” since Baumgartner filed for divorce in Might after almost 19 years of marriage. The mannequin, in the meantime, has not indicated that their children’ wants “have been impacted in any method by limiting her bank card spending,” per the docs.

Baumgartner is restricted to spending “the very substantial quantity of $30,000 a month,” a call Costner made after studying that his ex “started charging massive sums” on bank cards with a view to fund her divorce attorneys and accountants. “She gave me no advance warning every time she did so,” he claimed.


Christine Baumgartner and Kevin Costner Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock for SAG Awards

Costner subsequently “supplied to advance the extra sum of $65,000” towards her authorized charges in June. He claimed Baumgartner didn’t settle for — and continued to cost one other $45,000 “with out discover” to safe new illustration.

“It was then that I made the choice that there wanted to be some affordable limitation on using the bank cards,” he wrote.

The change in Baumgartner’s bank card restrict was outlined in a letter from his lawyer, Laura Wasser, dated June 16. The correspondence claimed that Costner was “left with no alternative however to cancel” the cardboard. (He initially set a spending cap of $15,000 monthly, which he believed could be sufficient “to cowl any emergencies for the kids.”)

Costner beforehand claimed in court docket docs that Baumgartner had spent “a complete of $95,000” since April. He additional alleged in a separate submitting that Baumgartner deliberate to allocate a lot of the $248,000 she requested in month-to-month little one assist funds for her personal bills, together with a non-public coach and cosmetic surgery. (The actor alleged that his ex spent $188,500 monthly on surgical procedures.)

Regardless of Baumgartner’s calls for, Costner claimed final month that he can’t afford her lofty little one assist request now that he’s now not “beneath contract” for his present Yellowstone. “I’ll earn considerably much less in 2023 than I did in 2022,” he argued in a June 28 submitting.

Costner, who has portrayed John Dutton on the household drama since its 2018 premiere, added that he has but to obtain any compensation from the present to this point this 12 months. Paramount introduced in Might that Yellowstone’s fifth season might be its final, however the second half of the season has been considerably delayed amid alleged rigidity between Costner and creator Taylor Sheridan.

As his forwards and backwards with Baumgartner continues, Costner earned a small victory when a decide dominated in opposition to her request to stay of their shared dwelling till August. Baumgartner was ordered to maneuver out by July 31 after beforehand alleging that she didn’t come up with the money for to discover a new residence.

“I’m not in any respect snug sharing my dwelling with Christine or along with her being on my property going ahead. … Nor do I consider it’s in our youngsters’s finest pursuits for me and Christine to occupy the identical home or property, given the allegations she has made and positions she has taken and the unlucky rigidity this has induced,” Costner wrote in court docket docs forward of the decide’s resolution.