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After an ugly divorce, the two of you are getting along well. You’ve made a private, one-on-one agreement to modify your child support agreement. That’s great, with one exception: The Texas Family Code does not allow such agreements. When things fall apart, as they sometimes do, the court will seek to impose the terms of your original child support agreement. Worse, the parent who owes according to the original court-ordered terms will be held in contempt of court. That smile and handshake won’t hold up in a court of law. Child support in Austin, TX, isn’t up to the individuals involved. The court must approve all modifications to child support. This includes increases or decreases in payment amounts. The court can sometimes be a cold mistress as some of these celebrities learned, when they hammered out child support agreements. Here are a few of the most notorious child support agreements: Francois-Henri Pinault and Linda Evangelista French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault didn’t pay supermodel Linda Evangelista child support for the first five years of their son’s life. However, when Evangelista’s lucrative contract with L’Oreal Cosmetics ended in 2010, she began the arduous process of securing child support when her son was less than a year old. Pinault and Evangelista reached an agreement hours before she was to testify in what had been a contentious, nasty court battle in 2012. Though the terms were not disclosed, Evangelista’s original court filing sought $46,000 a month in child support, $90,000 per year for a full and part-time nanny and another $175,000 for a bodyguard and a driver. Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubrey It’s not always the father who must pay child support, as an ongoing court battle between actress Halle Berry and her former boyfriend, model Gabriel Aubrey, shows. Berry is seeking to reduce the amount of child support she pays for their 7-year-old daughter Nahla. Berry pays Aubrey $16,000 per month, or $192,000 annually. However, in 2015, she sought to reduce those payments from $16,000 per month to $3,000. Britney Spears and Kevin Federline A judge granted Kevin Federline, former back-up dancer, full and sole custody of the two children he shares with pop star Britney Spears in 2008. Spears was granted visitation rights that were to increase over time, and Federline was granted $20,000 per month in child support. Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva The Hollywood actor and director and his one-time girlfriend are court regulars – arguing over a variety of parenting issues related to the care of their daughter, 5-year-old daughter Lucia. The arguing duo has battled in court over custody, where Lucia will go to school and whether Gibson could take Lucia to Australia for a month long stay. Their initial child support agreement also was contentious. Oksana Grigorieva walked away from an agreement worth $15 million in 2010. Instead, the court awarded her only $750,000 and $20,000 per month in child support. The pair shares physical custody equally, and Gibson won the right to take his daughter to Australia for a month in 2015. He was also victorious in choosing Lucia’s school. Kirk Kerkorian and Lisa Bonder It’s the largest child support award in the history of the U.S., but that didn’t stop former tennis star Lisa Bonder from requesting that the court award her more from her ex-husband, MGM mogul Kirk Kerkorian. Kerkorian died in July 2015, but he and Bonder’s decades-long courtship, month-long marriage and ongoing child support disputes over the care of now 17-year-old daughter Kira ran a lot of ink through tabloid printers. Most recently in 2014, Bonder sought $565,000 in monthly child support payments, saying their daughter’s Olympic equestrian training alone required $491,000 in monthly fees and expenses. A California judge denied the request, but he continued to pay $100,000 per month in support. Though celebrities and the uber-wealthy may have strange child support disputes, regular folk are not immune to the pitfalls of child support court challenges. Child support in Austin, TX, and in other states, is up to the courts, but both sides can build a case with the help of reputable, experienced attorneys.
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