Kevin Costner‘s estranged spouse is drowning in authorized payments, which is why she says she requested $855,000 from the actor.
In new court docket paperwork obtained by ET, Christine Baumgartner says she presently owes $314,113 “for previous charges and prices.” If she’s granted the $855,000 she’s already requested from the Yellowstone star, Baumgartner says she’ll use the remaining $541,887 to cowl future authorized payments as their divorce case continues to pull on.
In the identical court docket paperwork, filed Thursday in Santa Barbara Court docket, Bumgartner accuses Costner of “as soon as once more [resorting] to insults and inflammatory language” and fully ignoring “the Household Code mandate that litigation have to be carried out on a stage taking part in area with respect to legal professional’s charges and prices.”
Baumgartner additional states that “in attacking the reasonableness” of her charges, “Kevin’s attorneys present no up to date details about the charges and prices that Kevin has dedicated to this case. Regardless that Kevin claimed at his deposition that he had no thought how a lot he was spending, we discovered by paperwork that he incurred $644,000 in charges and prices by the top of July. He was outspending Christine 2:1, though she is the ‘out partner.'”
The 49-year-old goes on to state in court docket paperwork that her group estimates Costner’s “complete charges and prices by the top of the kid help listening to had been in extra of $850,000,” however Costner has offered “ZERO info as to how a lot Kevin has spent on charges and prices since August 1st, or how a lot they’ve budgeted” for the upcoming trial.
“If there may be to be any semblance of a stage taking part in area on this case,” Baumgartner’s court docket paperwork state, “Kevin ought to be ordered by the court docket to pay Christine’s previous and future charges in a lump sum no later than September 21, 2023.”
As ET beforehand reported, the Dances with Wolves star slammed Baumgartner’s $855,000 request as “outrageous” and “nonsensical.” He said that his estranged spouse “fails to supply the court docket with any proof that 1,106 hours of legal professional time at $800 per hour is critical to organize” for this upcoming trial.
However Bumgartner, whose little one help funds had been drastically reduced earlier this month, is clarifying in her most up-to-date court docket paperwork that she will not be spending your complete $855,000 on the upcoming trial.
“They wrongly declare the $855,000 Christine requests is ‘simply to organize for the November/December bifurcated trial,’ when in reality solely a portion of the charges requested are for that objective,” the court docket paperwork state.
The topic of who ought to cowl their legal professional’s charges has been a point of contention for a while now.
A listening to on the matter is ready for Wednesday in Santa Barbara court docket.
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