Kevin Costner’s Estranged Wife Christine Baumgartner Has Moved into a $40,000-a-Month, Four-Bedroom Montecito Rental Home
Despite her objections, Christine Baumgartner, 49, moved into the luxury four-bedroom property on Friday, exclusively revealed here by DailyMail.com – shortly after a judge in Santa Barbara, California, slashed her child support payments by over half to $63,000-a-month.
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Speaking to DailyMail.com, New York based family law expert Brett Ward of the Matrimonial and Family Law Practice Group at Blank Rome said:
'Technically, 'comparable lifestyle' means what the judge in any case says it means. But the general concept was put in place to ensure that the children do not experience vastly different lifestyles when with each parent - the big home versus the one-bedroom apartment.'
He added: 'The concept was not created to ensure total parity between the living conditions. It is in place to limit the disparity between them.
'What Christine is saying is that the current order of $129,000 a month is insufficient for her to match Kevin's lifestyle.
'She is doing a direct comparison of what he has versus what she can now afford, and of course is coming up short because he is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
'Whereas Kevin is basically saying 'comparable' does not mean equal, and $60,000 per month should allow her to provide the children with an extraordinary life.
'In the end, the final support number will come down to the judge's determination of what sum of money each month will sufficiently prevent a significant disparity in the children's lifestyles as they go from one home to the other.'
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"Kevin Costner’s Estranged Wife Christine Baumgartner Has Moved into a $40,000-a-Month, Four-Bedroom Montecito Rental Home," by Ruth Styles was published in DailyMail.com on September 5, 2023.