Kevin Costner says estranged wife charged $100K to his credit card amid divorce – National | 24CA News
Actor Kevin Costner and his not too long ago estranged spouse Christine Baumgartner are nonetheless preventing over the phrases of their soon-to-be divorce.
In new courtroom paperwork filed June 30 in California, Costner, 68, claimed Baumgartner, 49, charged US$100,000 (C$132,060) in authorized bills to his bank card all through May and June.
“Christine began charging large sums on the credit cards payable to her divorce attorneys and forensic accountants. She gave me no advance warning each time she did so,” Costner wrote within the authorized submitting, based on People journal.
Though People reported Costner subsequently cancelled the bank card utilized by Baumgartner, Insider reported Costner as an alternative lowered the spending restrict to $30,000 (C$39,630) a month.
According to the June 30 declaration obtained by Insider, Costner wrote: “Christine says I have not maintained the status quo because I cancelled one of her credit cards and because I put (a large) limit on the use of the credit card she uses.”
“I agreed to maintain the status quo with respect to our children. I have done so,” he continued. “I have continued to pay for all of the children’s expenses since Christine filed for divorce. Christine does not claim that the children’s expenses have not been paid.”
Costner wrote Baumgartner “grasps at straws with one baseless argument after another,” prolonging their divorce proceedings.
He allegedly supplied Baumgartner $65,000 for her authorized charges however by no means obtained a response from her attorneys. Costner and Baumgartner have three youngsters collectively: Cayden, 15, Hayes, 14, and Grace, 12.
The couple was married for 18 years. Baumgartner filed for divorce on May 1, citing “irreconcilable differences.”
The bank card limitation is simply the newest drama to emerge from the couple’s divorce proceedings.
Last month, Costner claimed Baumgartner was violating the phrases of their prenuptial settlement when she allegedly refused to vacate his southern California home. The actor stated the settlement, which was signed when the couple married in 2004, offers Baumgartner 30 days to exit the property after submitting for divorce.
For her half, Baumgartner has nonetheless refused to maneuver out of the multimillion-dollar property till she and Costner attain a toddler help settlement. She has requested Costner pay $248,000 (about C$327,900) a month in baby help, $350,000 (practically C$462,900) in lawyer’s charges and $150,000 (about C$198,300) in forensic accounting prices.
Baumgartner, who claimed she has no earnings on account of being a stay-at-home mother or father, additionally insisted Costner pay for his or her youngsters’s non-public college tuition, extracurriculars and well being care bills.
Costner allegedly already paid Baumgartner $1.4 million (C$1.8 million) owed to her as a situation of their prenuptial settlement.
In a June 28 authorized submitting, Baumgartner stated she would vacate Costner’s house on Aug. 31 if the ex-spouses attain a monetary settlement.
Costner and Baumgartner are scheduled to look in courtroom this week.
Costner, who now not stars within the hit TV collection Yellowstone, is presently in post-production for his newest movie Horizon: An American Saga, which he starred in, produced and directed.
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