{"id":2025725,"date":"2023-09-08T11:48:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T15:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-costners-ex-wife-ordered-to-pay-his-legal-bills-after-her-attempt-to-increase-129755-monthly-child-support-backfires\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T11:49:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T15:49:36","slug":"kevin-costners-ex-wife-ordered-to-pay-his-legal-bills-after-her-attempt-to-increase-129755-monthly-child-support-backfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-costners-ex-wife-ordered-to-pay-his-legal-bills-after-her-attempt-to-increase-129755-monthly-child-support-backfires\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Costner&#8217;s ex-wife must pay his legal fees after her failed attempt to raise the monthly child support of $129,755."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkevin-costners-ex-wife-ordered-to-pay-his-legal-bills-after-her-attempt-to-increase-129755-monthly-child-support-backfires%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2025725&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Kevin Costner&#8217;s Ex-Wife Ordered to Pay His Legal Bills After Her Attempt to Increase $129,755 Monthly Child Support Backfires<\/h2>\n<p>In a surprising turn \u200dof events, Christine Baumgartner,\u2063 the estranged wife of\u2064 actor Kevin Costner, had her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-costners-ex-wife-ordered-to-pay-his-legal-bills-after-her-attempt-to-increase-129755-monthly-child-support-backfires\/\" title=\"Kevin Costner's ex-wife must pay his legal fees after her failed attempt to raise the monthly child support of 9,755.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-cashes-in-with-book-deal-as-career-prospects-dwindle-child-support-payments-mount\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Cashes In with Book Deal as Career Prospects Dwindle, Child Support Payments Mount\">child support payments<\/a>\u200c significantly reduced<\/a> instead of receiving the increase \u2063she requested. The courtroom hearing in Santa \u200bBarbara, California, took an unexpected twist\u200d last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Baumgartner, who is a handbag designer, was previously \u2062receiving $129,755 per month from Costner. However, she sought an increase to $161,592 per \u2063month, according to Fox News. Unfortunately for her, the judge decided to decrease\u2063 her payments to $63,209 instead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">UPDATE: Kevin \u200cCostner\u2019s \u200dex Christine Baumgartner calls $129,000 monthly child support \u2064\u201cinsufficient\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She says Kevin \u200cneeds\u200c to pay more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desperate-dems-spent-hours-trying-to-stop-a-florida-pro-life-bill-they-just-failed\/\" title=\"Desperate Dems Spent Hours Trying To Stop A Florida Pro-Life Bill. They Just Failed.\">child support \u201c<\/a>so that the children\u200c can go on \u2062comparable vacations when they\u2062 are with her. This is\u200c true even \u2064if the child support payments\u2063 also\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RghHI6ExTr\">pic.twitter.com\/RghHI6ExTr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyLoud\/status\/1697350339534401850?\">August 31, \u20642023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Furthermore, during \u200ba subsequent hearing, Baumgartner&#8217;s request for Costner\u2064 to pay her\u200b attorney&#8217;s\u2063 fees was \u2063denied. Instead, the\u200c judge\u200c ordered her to\u200b pay Costner $14,237.50\u2062 in attorney&#8217;s\u200c fees that he had requested. Additionally, the judge refused to compel Costner to provide the \u200cfinancial documents \u200cBaumgartner\u200d had requested.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that Baumgartner&#8217;s request did not go as planned, with the judge even remarking that\u2064 he had spent a significant amount of time trying to understand \u2063what\u200b she lacked. \u200bThis \u2063outcome is likely\u200c far from\u200b what \u200dshe \u200danticipated when she \u200binitially requested $248,000 in monthly child support payments back in \u2063June, as reported by People Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>In her filing, Baumgartner \u200bclaimed\u200c that even the \u2064larger figure was\u200b insufficient \u200dto maintain their children&#8217;s accustomed\u2062 lifestyle. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-investigating-spacexs-hiring-practices-after-non-u-s-citizen-alleges-discrimination\/\" title=\"DOJ Investigating SpaceX\u2019s Hiring Practices After Non-U.S. Citizen Alleges Discrimination\">court documents revealed<\/a>\u2063 that\u200c their family expenses amounted to $6,645,285 per year, \u2062excluding taxes. Astonishingly, \u200btheir \u200bvarious\u200d homes\u200b alone required $2 million per year for upkeep.<\/p>\n<p>Costner and Baumgartner have three children together:\u200c Cayden, 16, Hayes, 14, \u2063and Grace, \u200d13.\u2063 They have been married\u200d for 19 years since September 2004, according to Us Weekly. The couple first met\u2062 on a golf course while Costner\u200b was \u200dpreparing for his role in the 1996 film &#8220;Tin \u2064Cup.&#8221; At that time, Costner had already been divorced from\u2064 his previous wife, Cindy, \u2063for two\u200c years.\u2062 Costner also has another child from a previous relationship with Bridget \u200bRooney.<\/p>\n<p>Baumgartner filed for divorce in May, although court documents indicate that\u2063 the couple had already \u200bseparated a month\u2062 prior\u200b to \u200cthe filing. As a result\u2062 of her failed\u2064 attempt to increase child support, Baumgartner has been ordered to pay Costner&#8217;s \u2062legal bills.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kevin-costners-ex-wife-ordered-pay-legal-bills-attempt-increase-129755-monthly-child-support-backfires\/\">The\u2064 Western Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine Baumgartner&#8217;s request for a $31,837 increase in monthly child support from Kevin Costner was denied. Instead, her current payments were significantly reduced during a recent Santa Barbara court hearing. Previously receiving $129,755 per month, she had hoped for $161,592.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2245,"featured_media":2025726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2025726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}