Kevin Costner’s ex is ‘relieved’ to get little one assist: ‘Not their fault’

Blissful ex-wife, blissful life.

“Yellowstone” star Kevin Costner’s ex-wife, Christine Baumgartner, is reportedly “relieved” by the tentative ruling set Tuesday that he would pay her $129,755 per 30 days in little one assist — half of what she initially wished.

Baumgartner, 49, “solely desires to handle and assist her kids,” an inside supply told People on Thursday.

“The divorce isn’t their fault,” the supply continued. “She doesn’t need them to undergo, or expertise unfavourable life modifications due to it.”

The insider additionally divulged the alleged toll that this has taken on the mother.

“It’s all anxious for Christine, however she is making an attempt to remain optimistic,” the supply advised the outlet.

The Put up reached out to representatives for each Costner and Baumgartner.

In early Could, the couple filed for divorce citing “irreconcilable variations” — nevertheless it has shortly changed into a tense and cruel authorized battle over their Santa Barbara, Calif., home and claims of lavish spending.

The couple wed in September 2004.

Earlier this week, Decide Thomas Anderle mandated that the couple can be required to every pay 50% of their kids’s personal college tuition, extracurricular actions and unreimbursed well being care bills below the interim ruling seen by The Put up.

However per TMZ, the kid assist order is short-term and there can be a full listening to over the subsequent few months, which signifies that the fee quantity might change sooner or later.

Initially, Baumgartner requested that Costner pay up $248,000 per 30 days in little one assist.

She additionally wished the actor to cowl the complete price of their kids’s personal college tuition, well being care and extracurricular actions, per People.

Costner initially supplied her $51,940 in little one assist per 30 days, which she dubbed as “utterly inappropriate,” in line with a report by TMZ that was printed final week.

The couple share three children collectively: Cayden, 16; Hayes, 14; and Grace, 13.

They every filed for joint custody of the children, which can be taken up in a listening to on July 12, per Entertainment Tonight.

And even though things have been less ideal between the two of them during the divorce process, it looks like things are continuing to heat up.

Baumgartner’s close friend told the Daily Mail this week that Costner is out to make her life a “dwelling hell.”

“He desires to humiliate her,” the buddy, who opted to stay nameless, advised the Day by day Mail. “This isn’t about the home, it’s about making Christine’s life a dwelling hell for truly going by way of with the divorce.”

The confidante additionally claimed that, “Christine stated she wouldn’t be shocked if Kevin had her escorted off the property by police.”

Costner had been making an attempt to push Baumgartner off of their marital property for weeks, noting a premarital settlement that they signed in 2004 that she would go away the home inside 30 days in the event that they ever cut up up.

Costner was beforehand married to Cindy Silva, 66, from 1978 to 1994.

They’ve three kids collectively: Annie, now 39, Lily, 36, and Joe, 35.

He additionally shares a son, Liam, now 27, with actress Bridget Rooney, 61.