Kevin Costner’s spouse admits she could not have understood their prenup, asks for a definition of ‘understood’

Kevin Costner’s estranged spouse, Christine Baumgartner, is arguing that she could not have understood their prenuptial settlement when he signed it in 2004.

In accordance with TMZ, the “Yellowstone” star’s attorneys have filed a brand new court docket doc the place they requested if the purse designer comprehend what she really signed.

“Christine asserts she can’t admit or deny that she understood the Premarital Settlement as a result of she (and apparently all of her attorneys) don’t perceive the phrase ‘perceive,’” the court docket docs learn, per the outlet.

Costner’s lawyer, Laura Wasser, wrote within the submitting, “Christine’s counsel requested for a definition of ‘understood’ and Kevin’s counsel offered the dictionary that means of the phrase ‘understood,’ to wit, ‘comprehended or understand the supposed that means of phrases.’”


In accordance with TMZ, the “Yellowstone” star’s attorneys have filed asking if the purse designer comprehend what she really signed.
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Christine Baumgartner leaving the courthouse.
The mother of three’s legal professional stated the “request is obscure as to the scope and that means of the phrases ‘understood,’” including that Baumgartner was “unable to confess or deny the request.”
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The legal professional desires the choose to make Baumgartner’s authorized workforce reply whether or not or not their consumer understood the written contract.

Per TMZ, the newest submitting got here after Baumgartner’s lawyer objected to Wasser stating that her consumer’s estranged spouse “understood the authorized impact of the premarital settlement earlier than you signed the premarital settlement.”

The mother of three’s legal professional stated the “request is obscure as to the scope and that means of the phrases ‘understood,’” including that Baumgartner was “unable to confess or deny the request.”


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Christine Baumgartner and Kevin Costner at an event in 2015.
Baumgartner filed for divorce from Costner in Might.
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A choose ordered the “Hidden Figures” star to pay his estranged spouse $129,755 per 30 days in baby help.
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Nonetheless, if the previous mannequin challenges the prenup, TMZ stories that she should return the $1.5 million Costner gave her and pay his legal professional’s charges.

Since Baumgartner, 49, filed for divorce in Might, the previous couple has been concerned in a contentious court docket battle.

In July, a choose dominated that the “Bodyguard” star, 68, to pay his estranged spouse $129,755 per 30 days in baby help for his or her three children— although she initially requested the court docket for $248,000 a month.


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She was ordered to maneuver out of their shared household residence by July 31 to uphold their prenup.
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He was additionally ordered to cowl $200,000 in legal professional’s charges and $100,000 in forensic prices.

The choose additionally dominated that the exes needed to uphold their prenup, which required Baumgartner to maneuver out of their shared household residence.

Final month, Web page Six obtained pictures of U-Haul vans out of Costner’s Santa Barbara, Calif., residence. It was later revealed that she was relocating to a “smaller residence” on the “Hidden Figures” actor’s property forward of her July 31 move-out deadline.


Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgartner at their wedding in 2004.
The previous couple tied the knot in 2003.
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Christine Baumgartner and Kevin Costner with their three children in 2019.
They share three children collectively.
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A supply advised People who the transfer was “a short lived resolution” and Baumgartner was “nonetheless searching for one other home.”

“She is staying within the space to not disrupt the youngsters’ lives,” the insider stated. “They are going to be again at college within the fall with their buddies.

Baumgartner didn’t let the drama hold her down, as she was not too long ago noticed operating errands in Santa Barbara final week sporting a $4,800 ombré Prada bag on her arm.