Kevin Costner Divorce Judge Locks Actor’s Lawyers Up as He Extends Monthly Alimony at $129K

The judge also said it was “unlikely that an evidentiary hearing will be held in the near future” on the child support issue.

The judge in Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgartner’s divorce case on Wednesday temporarily extended the actor’s $129,755 monthly alimony payments.

The judge also denied it Yellowstone a motion by star’s lawyers to settle the issue of alimony before the date of a hearing to determine the validity of challenging the couple’s prenuptial agreement of November 27.

Costner’s attorneys also asked for 10 days to review the auditor’s final filings before trial on both the child support agreement and the prenuptial agreement because nearly 9,000 pages of the auditor’s documents have been collected so far.

The judge said it was “unlikely that an evidentiary hearing will be held in the near future” on the child support issue and that the interim order remains in effect.

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However, the judgment is retroactive, meaning that if changes are made to the final judgment, child support will be paid from July 1.

Baumgartner, 49, who shares sons Cayden, 16, and Hayes, 14, and daughter Grace, 13, with Costner, 68, previously demanded $248,000 a month in child support. which Costner says is “overstated.”

The former handbag designer said she stayed at the actor’s Santa Barbara mansion until she signed a child support agreement allowing her to establish an “appropriate separate household,” even though the Costners’ prenuptial agreement called for her to move out within 30 years. days from filing for divorce.

Judge Thomas Anderle of the Superior Court of Santa Barbara County in California ruled at a hearing on July 5 that Baumgartner must vacate the sprawling complex, which is estimated to be worth $145 million, by July 31.

Costner and Baumgartner’s legal teams will return to court on Aug. 2 to discuss the estranged couple’s prenuptial agreement.

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Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgartner

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Legal documents filed by the actor’s lawyers show that Baumgartner could be forced to forfeit her $1.5 million divorce settlement for challenging the prenup.

“If Christine challenges in any way, or assists in challenging, the validity or enforceability of any provision of this Agreement, she shall forfeit any right to receive any payment, Property or Interest from Kevin pursuant to this Agreement,” according to the agreement, which the Oscar winner’s lawyers cited in legal documents filed June 28.

Marilyn Chinitz, a matrimonial attorney at Blank Rome in New York (she does not represent either Costner), told PEOPLE at the time that such clauses in prenuptial agreements are quite common. “Lawyers call these provisions ‘in torrer’ because it is a clause designed to instill fear. They encourage someone to question the contract.”

Chinitz added: “What this basically means is, ‘If you are going to challenge the contract by finding it invalid and unenforceable, then I have the right to recover everything you could have benefited from.’”

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