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The ex-wife of actor Kevin Costner believes the decision to reduce her child support payments to $63,000 per month is a « complete joke » and has pledged to battle on ahead of a new court hearing on September 6 on the couple’s joint legal expenditure of $1.5 million, reports DailyMail.
Baumgartner, 49, and Costner, 68, are scheduled to appear in court to determine who will pay for their legal expenditures. The mother-of-three is asking the actor to cough up $575,000 for legal fees and an additional $280,000 for expert witness fees. Costner, on the other hand, amassed a bill of $664,000 through the end of July, according to numbers presented in court last week, although he declared his intention to cover his own costs.
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Baumgartner’s presence tomorrow follows a two-day evidentiary hearing on child support during which she requested an increase in her monthly payments from the $129,000 she had been receiving to $161,000 instead. However, in an unexpected turn of events, Judge Thomas Anderle reduced it to $63,000, shocking the mother of three, a close friend told the publication. « Christine is shocked. She said even Kevin looked shocked. Everyone looked shocked. To say Christine is disappointed is an understatement.
