Popular Hollywood actor Kevin Costner has accused his estranged wife Christine Baumgartner of deliberately trying to delay their divorce proceedings in court.
68-year-old Costner in a motion obtained by US Weekly claimed Baumgartner will not disclose what her contentions even are and complained that she ‘has only thrown roadblock after roadblock up in an unjustified effort to avoid answering this discovery.’
He accused her of having ‘steadfastly refused’ to respond to a ‘very basic discovery’ request involving the ‘facts, documents and witnesses supporting her contentions.’
According to Costner’s motion: ‘Christine asserts she cannot admit or deny that she understood the Premarital Agreement because she (and apparently all of her attorneys) do not understand the word “understood.”
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Costener further argued: ‘This is gamesmanship of the worst sort. “Understood” is not a technical or arcane word.’
The new legal filing continued; ‘‘It is not grounds for objection that a request is ambiguous, unless it is so ambiguous that the responding party cannot in good faith frame an intelligent reply.
‘‘The notion that Christine and the multiple seasoned lawyers representing her do not understand the word “understood” and cannot reply to this simple, straightforward [request for admission] is frivolous. Clearly, this vagueness objection was interposed only for the purpose of delay.”
