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Kevin Costner and Wife Christine Baumgartner Break Up
New details person emerged successful Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgartner's divorce.
More than 1 period after the Yellowstone star and his estranged woman split after 18 years of marriage, Christine is requesting kid support for her and Kevin's three teenage kids, Cayden, 16, Hayes, 14, and Grace, 13, in documents obtained by NBC News.
The June 16 tribunal filing showed Christine asking the Oscar winner to supply $248,000 a period successful kid enactment arsenic good arsenic to proceed covering the outgo of the kids' wellness care, backstage schoolhouse tuition and extracurricular actives.
"The kid enactment that Christine is requesting whitethorn look large, but her petition is successful accord with California statutory and lawsuit law," the erstwhile designer's counsel wrote successful the filing. "This is precisely the benignant of lawsuit that demands an upward deviation truthful that the children volition astatine slightest attack the modular of surviving of their father."
In the documents, Christine besides alleged she has no income and has been a stay-at-home mother since Caden was calved successful 2007.
E! News has reached retired to Kevin and Christine's reps for remark and person not heard back.
"I recognize that our manner is extraordinary," she wrote successful the documents, per NBC News. "I admit however precise blessed we are to unrecorded this way. It's important to not lone to supply a lukewarm and comfy location for our children but to besides thatch them household values and gratitude."
The 49-year-old added that their "marital lifestyle, including that of the children, was accordant with Kevin's longterm exceedingly high-income."
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Christine's kid enactment filing comes weeks aft the Field of Dreams prima wrote successful a declaration filed June 9 that his ex refused to determination retired of their family's location successful Santa Barbara location since filing for divorcement connected May 1, per NBC News. He besides alleged that helium and Christine had signed a prenuptial statement that stated the property—which helium said was a premarital asset—belongs to him.
Referring to stipulations successful their prenup, Kevin's ineligible squad further noted that helium had paid Christine $100,000 connected 2 occasions during their marriage—upon their wedding and archetypal anniversary—as good arsenic $1 cardinal aft she filed for divorce. However, successful her caller filing, Christine explained that she was unwilling to judge the payment.
"I judge that Kevin's extremity is to get maine to pat into this money, truthful helium tin reason that I've waived my close to situation the Premarital Agreement," she wrote, per NBC News, adding that she "cannot marque this concession and does not judge payment."
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Kevin and Christine archetypal announced their split last month, after Christine filed for divorcement citing "irreconcilable differences" arsenic the crushed for split.
"It is with large sadness that circumstances beyond his power person transpired which person resulted successful Mr. Costner having to enactment successful a dissolution of matrimony action," a spokesperson for Kevin said in a May 2 statement. "We inquire that his, Christine's and their children's privateness beryllium respected arsenic they navigate this hard time."
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