Hunter Biden has been in a child support dispute with Lunden Roberts, the mother of his four-year-old daughter, Navy Joan Roberts.
Biden had brought a case seeking to have the agreement that they had made to pay child support of $20,000 a month reduced because he claimed he now has reduced finances and doesn’t have a steady income. But before that could be decided, the judge wanted to see what his finances were. Now that of course could pose a problem given the allegations about influence peddling, so I’m not sure why he brought this matter to begin with because it could reveal a lot.
Roberts’ attorney had accused Biden of stalling in turning over the financial information. The judge indicated that she was not happy with what the Biden team had turned over, saying there was excessive redaction, and told them to refile their financial information.
On Friday, Biden was finally deposed in the matter. He reportedly flew in on a private plane and rode up in a five-car motorcade, not exactly looking destitute. He also had to deal with the presence of Lunden Roberts, who in a surprise move showed up at the deposition.
Now, there’s a new report that they may have settled the matter.
Hunter Biden and his baby mama have privately settled their child support dispute in Arkansas, according to a source close to the first son.
Lunden Roberts, 32, the mother of Hunter’s long-unacknowledged 4-year-old daughter, agreed to her $20,000 monthly child support payments being slashed after she showed up in person to his deposition in Little Rock last week.
Roberts’ lawyer, Clint Lancaster, told The Post late Thursday that final terms were still to be determined and declined to confirm that his client had agreed to a reduced monthly payment of $5,000.
“The case is sealed, and these are financial terms that should never be disclosed,” he said, warning that leaks about details of the settlement would derail talks and end up with Hunter back in an Arkansas court on July 11.
“It was significant that Lunden was there” at Hunter’s deposition last week, Lancaster added. “I believe that settlement is important to Hunter Biden [but] we have concerns that Hunter would use [the settlement] as a means to promote some agenda of his … There’s always more that goes on in settlement negotiations than people realize.”
If that’s true, slashing it by 75 percent to $5,000 is a huge win for Hunter Biden. There’s also a report that Roberts dropped the request for Navy to use the Biden name.
The lawyer noted it was sad that the Biden family refused to even recognize little Navy.
But I think everybody is disappointed that there’s not more contact [with the Biden family].
“It’s not lost on anybody that Jill Biden wrote a children’s book and [dedicated it] to her grandchildren,” the lawyer went on. “She could have kept it at that, but she named every child except Navy.
“They hung stockings for the dog at Christmas but not for Navy. That is one of the saddest things.”
As we noted, Roberts’ lawyer had filed a motion to charge Hunter with contempt for failing to turn over all his financial information. That is scheduled for July 10.
But if this settlement is true, it certainly is a coincidence coming on the same day as Hunter Biden getting a sweet deal plea agreement under which he may serve no time at all. It looks like all the decks are being cleared for Joe Biden’s 2024 run.