Kevin Costner's estranged spouse says he makes $1.5 million a month and he or she needs $248,000 in month-to-month help for his or her youngsters: court docket docs

• Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgartner are locked in an more and more acrimonious divorce.
• Baumgartner needs Costner to pony up $248K a month in baby help.
• She argued that the quantity would hold their youngsters within the life-style they grew up in.

Kevin Costner’s soon-to-be-ex-wife mentioned he brings in $1.5 million {dollars} a month and he or she wants greater than the $30,000 a month in help he has provided to care for his or her three kids. 

Christine Baumgartner filed court docket paperwork late final week asking a choose to order Costner to pay her $248,000 a month for his or her three kids, Cayden, 16, Hayes, 14, and Grace, 13. She additionally needs the “Yellowstone” actor to pay the youngsters’ non-public faculty tuition, extracurricular actions, and sports activities in addition to their well being care bills, court docket paperwork filed on her behalf state. 

In her submitting, Baumgartner defined that they lived a jet-set life-style of personal planes, a number of sprawling estates, lavish holidays to the Caribbean and Hawaii, memberships to nation golf equipment, non-public cooks, and elite colleges for his or her kids. 

The mother of three mentioned Costner made $19.5 million in 2022, and he paid all of their household’s $11.9 million in bills, leaving a internet earnings of $7.5 million, in response to her declaration, which was obtained by Insider. 

“Our marital life-style, together with that of the youngsters, was in keeping with Kevin’s long-term exceedingly excessive earnings,” Baumgartner mentioned in her June 16 declaration. She added, “My major purpose is to make it possible for the youngsters proceed to thrive, and when they’re with me, to reside in a house and life-style that’s a minimum of considerably akin to that of their father.” 

Baumgartner, 49, a purse designer, mentioned she is unemployed and spends her days elevating their kids and managing their households, tasks, and employees. She mentioned that exterior of $50,000 within the financial institution, she has no different property or earnings. She acknowledged that Costner deposited $1.4 million right into a checking account that he opened beneath her identify, however mentioned if she accepts the cash, she is worried that it will void her authorized proper to assert further help, her declaration states. 

Baumgartner additionally insisted she has tried to maintain her now very public divorce non-public, in response to her declaration.

“I’ve prevented being public concerning the causes for our divorce,” Baumgartner mentioned within the June 16 declaration. “I’ve carried out this to guard our household’s privateness. I didn’t strain Kevin to depart the ‘Yellowstone’ present. Kevin’s public assaults on me are dangerous for our household. I consider they’re meant to strain me to maneuver out with no short-term baby help order in place.” 

The spouse additionally chided Costner for the best way he revealed their cut up to the youngsters. As an alternative of taking Baumgartner’s recommendation and telling them collectively, she alleged Costner needed to be “first” and inform them with out her there. 

“After a 24-year relationship, from his resort room in Las Vegas, Kevin instructed our three kids that we had been getting divorced over a 10-minute Zoom name with out me current,” Baumgartner mentioned, in response to her declaration. “I’m nonetheless confused by his motivation to do that by way of a really brief Zoom session, particularly since he was planning on being residence 5 days later. He additionally might have simply come residence from Las Vegas to have that dialog in individual.” 

The couple had been married for practically 20 years earlier than Baumgartner filed for divorce final month, citing irreconcilable variations.

Costner responded by asking the choose to oust Baumgartner from his $145 million compound in Santa Barbara. He argued that Baumgartner agreed to maneuver out within the occasion that they cut up as a provision of their prenuptial settlement. He additionally mentioned he paid her $1 million in the direction of discovering a brand new residence and provided to pay $30,000 a month to help the youngsters. 

Baumgartner then alleged that Costner was attempting to kick each her and their youngsters out of the house, which Costner denied.

Each side are due again in court docket subsequent month, when a choose will rule on whether or not Costner has the authorized standing to power Baumgartner to maneuver out of his compound. 

Attorneys for Baumgartner and Costner didn’t reply to a request for remark Wednesday.