Current Events > Kevin Costner ordered to pay estranged wife $129K a month in child support

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This is why child support should have a limit. Kevin Costner's kid(s) don't need that much money a month, fuck off.

Kevin Costner doesn't need that money anymore than his kids do. He's worth over $250 million.

If the dude wanted to keep every cent of his wealth there is an easy solution. Don't have kids.

why do you need that much to raise 3 kids?

... she requested $248k, a figure Kevin's accountant said included more than $100k for cosmetic procedures

Child support should be based on what it takes to provide for a child. There's plenty of justifiable areas where the wealthy should pay more for what they earn in taxes. Child support should max out at a certain point. There's no good reason to spend six figures on it a month, none.

The reason is he's a rich dude who had kids and that money means nothing to him.

If the guy wants to be a good father providing his kids a similar life to his own shouldn't be a big ask.

Otherwise he can try and claim custody for himself and raise those kids himself.

Rich people already barely have any consequences to their actions. Why add having children to that list?

According to the docs, Kevin and Christine will each be on the hook for 50% of their kids' health care expenses, plus their extracurricular activities and private school tuition.

Wtf did the children need cosmetic procedures for?

This system serves to create more rich assholes not less ones. Part of being a good parent is knowing when not to spoil your kids rotten.

Nobody's feeling sympathy for Costner losing money. It's about his wife and kids getting money they don't need and calling it child support when it's just glorified alimony.

I like how you act court cases like this are about avoiding spoiling children and not rich dudes trying to retain as much as their wealth as possible.

Wow crazy how a divorce is a great opportunity to stop giving your kids as much support and money. What an awesome moral lesson.

Did you miss the part where Costner offered to pay for all the kids expenses?

Nobody's arguing that Costner should be off the hook completely with his kids. Just that children don't need hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on them every single month.You're pushing a strawman argument and it's making you look foolish, stop.

You get that the kids expenses was on top of his 50k offer right? Which would likely put it in the range the court decided on anyway?

These aren't kids who are getting clothes from Walmart in a public school. The expenses are expensive because of who he is and who they are.

His kids don't need luxury clothing and private tutors. They shouldn't be entitled to live like kings just because daddy's rich. That's how you end up creating more rich assholes like the Trump brats.

Child support should be about giving children essential needs not frivolous luxuries.

Trump's kids are assholes because he treats them like garbage. He's the exact kind of garbage human who needs to be forced to pay people who are left with the consequences of his actions.

Child support is about making the partner who leaves pay their dues to the children they are no longer raising full time. Otherwise they can leave their ex to raise their kids on her own with no consequence and no accountability. It scales with rich people because that's how it should be.

Deadbeat Dads aren't entitled to their wealth just because you feel kids shouldn't be given private tutoring and fancy clothes.

Unlike you I don't think kids are entitled to luxuries just because they were born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Calling that child support spits in the face of every kid who barely gets any support form their fathers because they have next to nothing to give

Any talk from you about the rich paying their fair share is just concern trolling that's not fooling anyone. You're in favor of creating more rich assholes not less ones and you have made that abundantly clear by simping for Costner's spoiled brats.

That's how you end up creating more rich assholes like the Trump brats.

You're arguing that deadbeat Dads should have the option to force that silver spoon from their kids mouth and say 'that's mine'

they call it "affluenza".

No I'm arguing that child support should have limits based on providing essential needs.

No I'm arguing that child support should have limits based on providing essential needs. I have no problem with Costner paying a lot of child support a month. More than what the average person makes a year is asinine as is anyone in favor of it because having rich parents means you're entitled to luxuries.

You're entitled to support from your rich parent while you're still a child being raised yes. They're your parent.

Costner was already offering more per month than what most people make per year. You're saying that he only needs to offer what? Like 4k a month? Which would still be significantly higher than the average person?

The system is biased against men from the start. Always.

What's an essential need and who's the one that defines it?

I think the point is even something like 20k a month is high but at least it's not more than the average yearly salary delivered every single month.

A fair question. I'd say a good starting point is to say that luxuries are by definition not essential and should not be part of child support. What a luxury is has a clear definition. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_goods

I think child support should be capped at lower upper class living standards at the highest.

The guy probably spends more than that on his cars.

There's nothing average about these people and what average people do or don't do or have shouldn't be relevant for divorce and child support cases. It's all about the people in question.

Is Costner even unhappy with this result to begin with? That rarely seems to even come up. People see these figures and make up some outrage over these poor celebrities who have expenses every month that dwarf what everyone on this board makes.

The guy probably spends more than that on his cars.

There's nothing average about these people and what average people do or don't do or have shouldn't be relevant for divorce and child support cases. It's all about the people in question.

Is Costner even unhappy with this result to begin with? That rarely seems to even come up. People see these figures and make up some outrage over these poor celebrities who have expenses every month that dwarf what everyone on this board makes.

I don't understand what point you're trying to make with that link and how it relates to this case. According to the article in the op it says that Kevin Costner is on the hook for paying for half of his 3 children's Healthcare, tuition, and extracurricular costs. Are you trying to say that Healthcare, school tuition, and extracurriculars aren't essential? If they're not, then what should his children actually expect to receive from him?

NOBODY FUCKING CARES ABOUT KEVIN COSTNER LOSING MONEY THAT'S NOT THE FUCKING POINT AND YOU NEED TO GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK HEAD. @Punished_Blinx

Peopleare upset that these kids are getting shit they don't need under the guise of support. It's not about Kevin's bank account it-s the idea that children are entitled to riches just because their parents have them which is fucking dumb.

I don't know how Costner feels. I figure if he actually loves his kids then being apart from them hurts worse than the money.

But my personal issue here is that I hate absurd levels of generational wealth. People shouldn't be allowed to give their children this much money voluntarily in the first place.

I'm sure you random message board guy who is outraged over figures in a TMZ article knows more than their family and the courts about what they need and don't need.

Those kids who are in an elite family school who have an established life with their friends? Fuck em. They need to sell their house, move and live and learn with the rest of us! That'll teach those kids who did nothing wrong outside of being born to rich and famous people.

Kids inhereting wealth is possibly the least offensive way to be wealthy.