Christine Baumgartner, Kevin Costner. Sweet Dish / MEGA
Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgartner’s break up has solely gotten messier because the estranged couple continues to duke it out in court docket.
In court docket paperwork obtained by Us Weekly on Wednesday, Jun 21, Baumgartner, 49, alleges Costner, 68, is utilizing “public assaults” designed to “strain me to maneuver out with no short-term baby assist settlement in place.” However, she claims, she can not go away their dwelling as a result of she doesn’t have sufficient money to keep up the household’s present way of life.
When Baumgartner and Costner tied the knot in 2004, the pair signed a prenuptial settlement which said that if both social gathering selected to file for divorce they’d have 30 days to vacate their shared residence. Nonetheless, within the latest submitting, the docs state that the settlement was made earlier than the pair had kids collectively — they share sons Cayden, 16, and Hayes, 14, and daughter Grace, 13 — and subsequently, the youngsters’s wants have been “not contemplated nor accounted for.”
Baumgartner claims that she has “no private revenue” and {that a} $1 million fee Costner made to her per the phrases of the prenup was deposited into an account with out her “consent or information.” Baumgartner says within the submitting that she has “instructed” the funds to be returned to him.
“Kevin is attempting to power my concession that the spousal assist limitation is legitimate by advantage of my ‘acceptance’ of those funds,” she alleges. “I consider that Kevin’s objective is to get me to faucet into this cash so he can argue that I’ve waived my proper to problem the premarital settlement.”
Us confirmed in Might that Baumgartner filed for divorce from Costner, citing irreconcilable variations as the explanation for his or her break up. Whereas the 30-day window stipulated within the prenup has expired, Baumgartner’s lawyer claimed final week that Costner had no authorized proper to kick his estranged spouse and their children out of their longtime household dwelling.
“This RFO (request for order) seeks to kick Christine and their three kids out of the home that the youngsters have lived in for his or her total lives,” John Rydell, Baumgartner’s lawyer, wrote in court docket paperwork obtained by Insider on the time. “Though the authorized foundation for Kevin’s request to kick his spouse and youngsters out of their house is all however nonexistent, that is nonetheless a matter of crucial significance for Christine.”
Costner alleged that Baumgartner is refusing to vacate the premises, however Baumgartner refutes these claims.
“Christine understands that sooner or later sooner or later she and the youngsters must transfer out of the household dwelling,” Wednesday’s submitting reads. “She can not achieve this at this early stage of the case as a result of she doesn’t have enough funding to safe housing that may guarantee the youngsters can preserve related requirements of residing within the events’ respective properties.”
Following their break up, a supply completely advised Us that Costner was shocked by the separation however wished to work issues out. “He really loves her and is attempting to get her again. He’s been blindsided by this,” a supply completely advised Us on the time.
Nonetheless, Baumgartner claims in Wednesday’s submitting that the Oscar winner “insisted that he had the fitting” to be the “first” to inform their three kids that they “have been getting a divorce.” She alleges that Costner — who was in Las Vegas on the time — advised the youngsters the information through a “10-minute Zoom name” with out her being current for it.
“The youngsters’s welfare has all the time been my highest precedence, and I used to be involved they’d discover out concerning the divorce earlier than Kevin and I may inform them,” she states. “It was vital for me that we inform the youngsters in particular person and collectively. I defined this to Kevin and shared a number of articles concerning the significance of speaking to the youngsters as a united entrance.”
