Kevin Costner divorce

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Anonymous wrote:Seems strategic to me on her part that she did this when her kids were older but not yet out of the house. With no kids to house, she'd have zero argument for maintaining the lavish lifestyle. But she had to know she was on thin ground so waited a good long while to try to get out. She doesn't have much of an argument.

A man is not a plan. That is for sure.

I think her argument needs to be, in part, that when the kids are with him, they live in a $125m house in Carpinteria, presumably where they attend school. It's the home she's lived in for the last 20+ years while she stayed home with the children and he left to play in a band and film tv and movies. He's proposing that she live on $38,000 per month in child support (and she also gets a whopping ~ $1m as her total net worth leaving the marriage ). A quick google search suggests that she's not going to find a decent 4-bedroom home in Carpinteria for less than $10,000 per month, and at that price, it is going to feel very different to the kids (and her) than dad's house. How do the kids not hate their dad for doing this to mom? I would - my parents are still married and my dad controls all the money and to this day I still fear for my mom. It's a bad way to treat someone. The cost of living in Carpinteria is very high. They had a traditional, old school marriage where she stayed home with the kids and he did whatever he wanted, but now that it's over, he's kicking her to the curve with relatively nothing (0.25% of assets).

The lawyer who allowed her to agree to this prenup, with no adjustments for length of marriage or number of kids, is to blame in large part.

I also agree that "a man is not a plan". I wouldn't want this for myself or my daughter.

There is a house for <$2M

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4710-Eleanor-Dr-Carpinteria-CA-93013/15875241_zpid/

One town over

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8109-Puesta-Del-Sol-Carpinteria-CA-93013/16308116_zpid/

Or one town the other way Santa Barbara

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/208-S-Voluntario-St-Santa-Barbara-CA-93103/15883077_zpid/

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/415-N-Canada-St-Santa-Barbara-CA-93103/15889682_zpid/

DP. But he gave her 1M so these are all out of her price range. She can’t even get a shitstack in north Arlington for that.

You do realize that most people don’t pay 100% cash for a home? She can easily put down 20% and have a mortgage and go to work like the rest of us.

She can put a down payment and use her insanely high alimony.

Kevin has already offered to cover her home’s down payment and first 12 mortgage payments PLUS the million cash PLUS the child support PLUS all expenses for the teen kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems strategic to me on her part that she did this when her kids were older but not yet out of the house. With no kids to house, she'd have zero argument for maintaining the lavish lifestyle. But she had to know she was on thin ground so waited a good long while to try to get out. She doesn't have much of an argument.

A man is not a plan. That is for sure.

I think her argument needs to be, in part, that when the kids are with him, they live in a $125m house in Carpinteria, presumably where they attend school. It's the home she's lived in for the last 20+ years while she stayed home with the children and he left to play in a band and film tv and movies. He's proposing that she live on $38,000 per month in child support (and she also gets a whopping ~ $1m as her total net worth leaving the marriage ). A quick google search suggests that she's not going to find a decent 4-bedroom home in Carpinteria for less than $10,000 per month, and at that price, it is going to feel very different to the kids (and her) than dad's house. How do the kids not hate their dad for doing this to mom? I would - my parents are still married and my dad controls all the money and to this day I still fear for my mom. It's a bad way to treat someone. The cost of living in Carpinteria is very high. They had a traditional, old school marriage where she stayed home with the kids and he did whatever he wanted, but now that it's over, he's kicking her to the curve with relatively nothing (0.25% of assets).

The lawyer who allowed her to agree to this prenup, with no adjustments for length of marriage or number of kids, is to blame in large part.

I also agree that "a man is not a plan". I wouldn't want this for myself or my daughter.

There is a house for <$2M

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4710-Eleanor-Dr-Carpinteria-CA-93013/15875241_zpid/

One town over

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8109-Puesta-Del-Sol-Carpinteria-CA-93013/16308116_zpid/

Or one town the other way Santa Barbara

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/208-S-Voluntario-St-Santa-Barbara-CA-93103/15883077_zpid/

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/415-N-Canada-St-Santa-Barbara-CA-93103/15889682_zpid/

DP. But he gave her 1M so these are all out of her price range. She can’t even get a shitstack in north Arlington for that.

You do realize that most people don’t pay 100% cash for a home? She can easily put down 20% and have a mortgage and go to work like the rest of us.

She can put a down payment and use her insanely high alimony.

Kevin has already offered to cover her home’s down payment and first 12 mortgage payments PLUS the million cash PLUS the child support PLUS all expenses for the teen kids.

But what about her plastic surgery and shopping sprees?

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$1mm out of his fortune seems like a deliberate statement. I haven't followed this story, but it makes me wonder if he's offering her so little because he's angry. Did she cheat or initiate the divorce and he didn't want to divorce?

If not, this makes him look petty and stingy to the mother of his children.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM loves to say how rich women have no incentive to get married so they can protect their money. Well the same should be true of rich men. Good for Kevin for protecting his assets. I'm sure if he was a woman no one on here would have an issue so it shouldn't be a problem he did this. She is being greedy and devious and it’s wicked to smear the father of your children like this. He was very upfront and she signed that prenup. She comes across as super shady.

No she doesn’t. We all feel sorry for her. Even if we don’t relate to her because we have a career, she’s our mom, sister or friend. I’d fell sorry for a man who left an 18 year marriage with 0.25% of the marital assets, too. And if I were the judge, I’d throw it out.

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Anonymous wrote:$1mm out of his fortune seems like a deliberate statement. I haven't followed this story, but it makes me wonder if he's offering her so little because he's angry. Did she cheat or initiate the divorce and he didn't want to divorce?

If not, this makes him look petty and stingy to the mother of his children.

It’s the amount she asked for in the prenup.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM loves to say how rich women have no incentive to get married so they can protect their money. Well the same should be true of rich men. Good for Kevin for protecting his assets. I'm sure if he was a woman no one on here would have an issue so it shouldn't be a problem he did this. She is being greedy and devious and it’s wicked to smear the father of your children like this. He was very upfront and she signed that prenup. She comes across as super shady.

No she doesn’t. We all feel sorry for her. Even if we don’t relate to her because we have a career, she’s our mom, sister or friend. I’d fell sorry for a man who left an 18 year marriage with 0.25% of the marital assets, too. And if I were the judge, I’d throw it out.

Disagree 1000%

You don’t get to take peoples money they earned after 70 years of hard work because you banged them for 20 years.

You don’t have the talent, intelligence or hard work to earn the money you don’t just get to take it.

It’s insane women essentially want to be sex workers.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems strategic to me on her part that she did this when her kids were older but not yet out of the house. With no kids to house, she'd have zero argument for maintaining the lavish lifestyle. But she had to know she was on thin ground so waited a good long while to try to get out. She doesn't have much of an argument.

A man is not a plan. That is for sure.

I think her argument needs to be, in part, that when the kids are with him, they live in a $125m house in Carpinteria, presumably where they attend school. It's the home she's lived in for the last 20+ years while she stayed home with the children and he left to play in a band and film tv and movies. He's proposing that she live on $38,000 per month in child support (and she also gets a whopping ~ $1m as her total net worth leaving the marriage ). A quick google search suggests that she's not going to find a decent 4-bedroom home in Carpinteria for less than $10,000 per month, and at that price, it is going to feel very different to the kids (and her) than dad's house. How do the kids not hate their dad for doing this to mom? I would - my parents are still married and my dad controls all the money and to this day I still fear for my mom. It's a bad way to treat someone. The cost of living in Carpinteria is very high. They had a traditional, old school marriage where she stayed home with the kids and he did whatever he wanted, but now that it's over, he's kicking her to the curve with relatively nothing (0.25% of assets).

The lawyer who allowed her to agree to this prenup, with no adjustments for length of marriage or number of kids, is to blame in large part.

I also agree that "a man is not a plan". I wouldn't want this for myself or my daughter.

There is a house for <$2M

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4710-Eleanor-Dr-Carpinteria-CA-93013/15875241_zpid/

One town over

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8109-Puesta-Del-Sol-Carpinteria-CA-93013/16308116_zpid/

Or one town the other way Santa Barbara

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/208-S-Voluntario-St-Santa-Barbara-CA-93103/15883077_zpid/

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/415-N-Canada-St-Santa-Barbara-CA-93103/15889682_zpid/

DP. But he gave her 1M so these are all out of her price range. She can’t even get a shitstack in north Arlington for that.

You do realize that most people don’t pay 100% cash for a home? She can easily put down 20% and have a mortgage and go to work like the rest of us.

She can put a down payment and use her insanely high alimony.

Kevin has already offered to cover her home’s down payment and first 12 mortgage payments PLUS the million cash PLUS the child support PLUS all expenses for the teen kids.

He is worth 400 million. What you have noted is a drop in the bucket for him.

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Anonymous wrote:$1mm out of his fortune seems like a deliberate statement. I haven't followed this story, but it makes me wonder if he's offering her so little because he's angry. Did she cheat or initiate the divorce and he didn't want to divorce?

If not, this makes him look petty and stingy to the mother of his children.

It seems he is a total jerk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$1mm out of his fortune seems like a deliberate statement. I haven't followed this story, but it makes me wonder if he's offering her so little because he's angry. Did she cheat or initiate the divorce and he didn't want to divorce?

If not, this makes him look petty and stingy to the mother of his children.

+1. When people hear how much he is worth, how he has unexpectedly left a wildly successful show and tied up his assets so as not to produce income, it makes him look vindictive. When it comes out who he cheated on his wife with and when on set, he'll look even worse.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:$1mm out of his fortune seems like a deliberate statement. I haven't followed this story, but it makes me wonder if he's offering her so little because he's angry. Did she cheat or initiate the divorce and he didn't want to divorce?

If not, this makes him look petty and stingy to the mother of his children.

It’s the amount she asked for in the prenup.

He cheated.

[Anonymous]

His first wife got 80 million.

He protected his assets with his second wife.

This move most likely protects all of his children (from both marriages)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:$1mm out of his fortune seems like a deliberate statement. I haven't followed this story, but it makes me wonder if he's offering her so little because he's angry. Did she cheat or initiate the divorce and he didn't want to divorce?

If not, this makes him look petty and stingy to the mother of his children.

It’s the amount she asked for in the prenup.

He cheated.

Unless the prenup had a cheating clause, it’s irrelevant. And given the info leaked by both sides, there’s no cheating clause.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seems strategic to me on her part that she did this when her kids were older but not yet out of the house. With no kids to house, she'd have zero argument for maintaining the lavish lifestyle. But she had to know she was on thin ground so waited a good long while to try to get out. She doesn't have much of an argument.

A man is not a plan. That is for sure.

I think her argument needs to be, in part, that when the kids are with him, they live in a $125m house in Carpinteria, presumably where they attend school. It's the home she's lived in for the last 20+ years while she stayed home with the children and he left to play in a band and film tv and movies. He's proposing that she live on $38,000 per month in child support (and she also gets a whopping ~ $1m as her total net worth leaving the marriage ). A quick google search suggests that she's not going to find a decent 4-bedroom home in Carpinteria for less than $10,000 per month, and at that price, it is going to feel very different to the kids (and her) than dad's house. How do the kids not hate their dad for doing this to mom? I would - my parents are still married and my dad controls all the money and to this day I still fear for my mom. It's a bad way to treat someone. The cost of living in Carpinteria is very high. They had a traditional, old school marriage where she stayed home with the kids and he did whatever he wanted, but now that it's over, he's kicking her to the curve with relatively nothing (0.25% of assets).

The lawyer who allowed her to agree to this prenup, with no adjustments for length of marriage or number of kids, is to blame in large part.

I also agree that "a man is not a plan". I wouldn't want this for myself or my daughter.

There is a house for <$2M

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4710-Eleanor-Dr-Carpinteria-CA-93013/15875241_zpid/

One town over

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8109-Puesta-Del-Sol-Carpinteria-CA-93013/16308116_zpid/

Or one town the other way Santa Barbara

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/208-S-Voluntario-St-Santa-Barbara-CA-93103/15883077_zpid/

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/415-N-Canada-St-Santa-Barbara-CA-93103/15889682_zpid/

DP. But he gave her 1M so these are all out of her price range. She can’t even get a shitstack in north Arlington for that.

You do realize that most people don’t pay 100% cash for a home? She can easily put down 20% and have a mortgage and go to work like the rest of us.

She can put a down payment and use her insanely high alimony.

Kevin has already offered to cover her home’s down payment and first 12 mortgage payments PLUS the million cash PLUS the child support PLUS all expenses for the teen kids.

He should give her the actual house that their kids are being raised in. He can afford it. If it is a compound with other homes being rented out, he can keep those.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:His first wife got 80 million.

He protected his assets with his second wife.

This move most likely protects all of his children (from both marriages

Weird. This is exactly what so many posters screech about in the relationship forum. Must financially protect the children (only first children usually count) from the shrew of an ex-wife.

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Anonymous wrote:$1mm out of his fortune seems like a deliberate statement. I haven't followed this story, but it makes me wonder if he's offering her so little because he's angry. Did she cheat or initiate the divorce and he didn't want to divorce?

If not, this makes him look petty and stingy to the mother of his children.

It’s the amount she asked for in the prenup.

He cheated.

Unless the prenup had a cheating clause, it’s irrelevant. And given the info leaked by both sides, there’s no cheating clause.

I was addressing pp's comment that she might have cheated. He cheated blatantly enough that she found out.