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Kevin Costner says he nonetheless has love for spouse Christine Baumgartner regardless of authorized battle
Having spent months in a bitter authorized battle over baby assist, Kevin Costner has received his case towards his ex-wife.
Regardless of their legal woes, Costner nonetheless says he nonetheless has ‘love’ for his former wife.
Initially, Baumgartner sought $161,000 in month-to-month baby assist funds.
Although after months of authorized wrangling, a decide has dominated that Baumgartner will obtain $63,000 per 30 days.
That is lower than half of the $129,000 she had beforehand been receiving month-to-month, and virtually $100,000 lower than the $161,000 she had been in search of in courtroom.
The announcement got here after an intense two-day courtroom listening to the place Costner and his former spouse laid out what they believed to be a good sum.
Throughout a lunch break on the courtroom in Santa Barbara, California, Costner made a heart-breaking remark about his ex to press.
The 68-year-old instructed reporters: “It is a horrible place to be, however that is the place we’re at.”
“It feels so dangerous,” he continued, earlier than including: “We’re speaking about any individual I really like on the opposite aspect. I simply can’t.”
When requested if he ‘nonetheless has love’ for his estranged spouse by a reporter, Costner replied: “After all.”
“You realize, when you’ve a life that lengthy with any individual, there is no such thing as a winner… and it is this huge, loopy factor known as life and the way it unravels so shortly,” he confessed.
“One minute you are feeling such as you’re on high of the world, and then you definitely notice how, , how weak you’re.”
Throughout the closing levels of the listening to, Costner had argued that he didn’t wish to pay an ‘inflated’ stage of kid assist as this is able to power him to work on a challenge he didn’t wish to.
He instructed the courtroom: “I wish to assist however the considered having issues inflated to the purpose I can not do what I wish to do…”
The Bodyguard actor then apologised to the courtroom, saying: “In some way on this uncommon world, we did not make it and for that, I am sorry.”
An additional listening to is now attributable to happen in November.