Christine Baumgartner, Kevin Costner. Candy Dish / MEGA
Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgartner’s split has only gotten messier as the estranged couple carries on to duke it out in court.
In court docket documents attained by Us Weekly on Wednesday, Jun 21, Baumgartner, 49, alleges Costner, 68, is working with “general public assaults” intended to “pressure me to go out with no a non permanent baby assist agreement in area.” But, she statements, she can’t leave their household since she does not have adequate income to retain the family’s latest way of living.
When Baumgartner and Costner tied the knot in 2004, the pair signed a prenuptial arrangement which stated that if possibly get together chose to file for divorce they would have 30 days to vacate their shared home. Even so, in the latest submitting, the docs condition that the agreement was made prior to the pair had youngsters with each other — they share sons Cayden, 16, and Hayes, 14, and daughter Grace, 13 — and consequently, the children’s needs were “not contemplated nor accounted for.”
Baumgartner promises that she has “no private income” and that a $1 million payment Costner made to her per the conditions of the prenup was deposited into an account devoid of her “consent or know-how.” Baumgartner claims in the filing that she has “instructed” the funds to be returned to him.
“Kevin is hoping to force my concession that the spousal guidance limitation is valid by advantage of my ‘acceptance’ of these resources,” she alleges. “I think that Kevin’s objective is to get me to tap into this income so he can argue that I’ve waived my right to challenge the premarital agreement.”
Us verified in May well that Baumgartner submitted for divorce from Costner, citing irreconcilable dissimilarities as the purpose for their break up. Whilst the 30-day window stipulated in the prenup has expired, Baumgartner’s lawyer claimed final 7 days that Costner experienced no lawful appropriate to kick his estranged wife and their little ones out of their longtime spouse and children house.
“This RFO (request for buy) seeks to kick Christine and their a few little ones out of the dwelling that the children have lived in for their complete lives,” John Rydell, Baumgartner’s law firm, wrote in courtroom documents acquired by Insider at the time. “Although the lawful foundation for Kevin’s ask for to kick his wife and small children out of their household is all but nonexistent, this is however a issue of critical significance for Christine.”
Costner alleged that Baumgartner is refusing to vacate the premises, but Baumgartner refutes those statements.
“Christine understands that at some place in the future she and the little ones will have to transfer out of the spouse and children home,” Wednesday’s filing reads. “She can not do so at this early phase of the case simply because she does not have enough funding to safe housing that will assure the kids can keep comparable requirements of living in the parties’ respective homes.”
Pursuing their split, a resource solely advised Us that Costner was surprised by the separation but desired to function things out. “He certainly enjoys her and is making an attempt to get her back. He’s been blindsided by this,” a supply completely explained to Us at the time.
Having said that, Baumgartner claims in Wednesday’s submitting that the Oscar winner “insisted that he experienced the right” to be the “first” to inform their a few young children that they “were having a divorce.” She alleges that Costner — who was in Las Vegas at the time — advised the young children the news by way of a “10-minute Zoom call” devoid of her getting current for it.
“The children’s welfare has usually been my highest precedence, and I was worried they would come across out about the divorce prior to Kevin and I could tell them,” she states. “It was significant for me that we convey to the kids in man or woman and alongside one another. I explained this to Kevin and shared numerous article content about the value of speaking to the kids as a united front.”
