Chistine Baumgartner, Kevin Costner’s ex-wife, half complied with the mandate of justice: she found a way to stay in the actor’s luxurious estate
The conflictive separation between Kevin Costner and his ex-wife Christine Baumgartner continues to add chapters in the judicial file and also in the media. This Friday, moving trucks were seen leaving the Santa Bárbara complex, valued at 145 million dollars, which the actor owns and which became one of the main axes of conflict. Those images finally confirmed that the 49-year-old woman decided to abide by the mandate of justice, which ordered him to comply with the prenuptial agreemently leave the property before July 31. However, despite the move, the US media claims that the designer left the main house, but she continues to live on the property.
“Christine has finally decided to honor the clause of the prenup and is vacating the house she shared with Costner and their children during their 18-year marriage,” People reported. In any case, the same medium indicates that she “will stay in a smaller house on the property that has been used as staff accommodation.”
“This is a temporary solution,” confided a source close to the designer. And she added: “He is still looking for another house. He stays in the area so as not to interrupt the lives of the children, who will return to school in the fall with their friends. Christine is trying to keep as normal a family routine as possible. The only target of her is the children ”.
Kevin Costner and his wife Christine Baumgartner
The presence of the removal truck, whose photographs were published by Page Six, occurred days before the deadline established by the court for Christine to leave the house: at the beginning of the month, a judge ordered that she must do so before Monday, July 31. In the context of the litigation for her divorce, the woman had originally requested that the term be extended one more if she finally reached an agreement with the actor for the support of her children.
Baumgartner filed for divorce on May 1 of this year and has remained in his former family home ever since, despite a clause in the prenuptial agreement stating that once a potential lawsuit was filed, he had 30 days to leave. Baumgartner’s lawyers had argued that she does not have the time or money to find a home before the end of the month, but the judge denied the request to extend the window.
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In a statement submitted by Costner in the file, he himself explains: “Due to the nature of my work, I am frequently out of town, therefore it is particularly important for me when I am at home to have a home to go to.” . He added: “When Christine and I started talking about marriage in 2003, I made it clear to her that I would not remarry without being clear that my owned residences would still be mine to live in, no matter what happened in our marriage. Christine acknowledged to me at the time that she understood the importance of this to me and agreed to this provision.
“Our agreement provides, among other terms, that all assets we each owned prior to our marriage would remain separate property. One of my assets is the residence that she and I have used as our family home with our three children. I bought this property in 1988, long before I married her, and adjacent to the residence is another separate house that I use exclusively for commercial purposes (film editing) and will be working on this year in connection with a new film project that I am producing. ”, he clarified.
At the hearing on July 6, Costner’s legal team claimed that the designer was “clinging to one unfounded argument after another” to refuse to leave the house. Therefore, she included a special request: “It is respectfully requested that Christine be ordered to vacate her residence immediately and no later than July 13, 2023.”
The most controversial issue in the litigation is support for the ex-partner’s three children, Grace, 13, Hayes, 14, and Cayden, 16. In his application, Baumgartner asks for joint custody of the children. Costner, for his part, shared the same request as his ex-partner and agreed to contribute with the payment of 30 thousand dollars per month for the rent of a house for his ex-wife and with the payment of another 10 thousand as help for the costs of your move. Court documents also show that the actor has already paid Christine $1 million, as stipulated in the prenuptial agreement.
Then it emerged that Baumgartner was demanding $248,000 a month from the actor for the care of his three children. This amount differs considerably from the 30 thousand that the father of the children initially offered. In the plea filed in Santa Barbara County Superior Court, Baumgartner also requested that Costner continue to cover his children’s private school, extracurricular activities and health expenses. The businesswoman affirms that she has no income since she gave birth to the first of the children. Finally, it was established that the designer would receive 129 thousand dollars per month.
2023-07-29 22:56:11
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