Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis John Salangsang/Shutterstock; Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock
Olivia Wilde accused ex Jason Sudeikis of not paying youngster help since their November 2020 cut up.
The Booksmart director, 39, claimed that she has been paying for all prices of the kids’s every day care in a brand new court docket submitting obtained by The Blast on Tuesday, April 4. Wilde and Sudeikis, 47, are the mother and father of son Otis, 8, and daughter Daisy, 6.
“Jason will not be at present paying youngster help to me, regardless of my requests by counsel that we agree upon an interim help quantity to keep away from additional litigation on this matter,” the Consuming Buddies actress alleged. “Whereas Jason and I’ve been splitting sure bills for the kids, resembling their college tuition, I’ve been bearing 100% of the prices of the kids’s care when they’re with me, together with, however not restricted to, their meals, clothes, childcare, extracurricular actions and transportation prices.”
The Don’t Fear Darling director additionally requested the choose to compel Sudeikis to pay for a few of her authorized charges, claiming that he’s in a “considerably superior place” to her in relation to funds. “Whereas I’ve but to obtain particular monetary data from Jason, my understanding and perception is that he’s wealthier than I’m and has far larger earnings,” Wilde wrote, requesting $500,000 towards authorized prices. “I’ve no cause to imagine that Jason would dispute this.”
Wilde’s authorized staff, in the meantime, alleged that the O.C. alum “has borne the lion’s share of the bills for his or her youngsters” and requested that Sudeikis pay youngster help “retroactive” to the date she filed the case.
A supply near Sudeikis, nonetheless, solely informed Us Weekly that the previous couple have at all times cut up childcare prices evenly. “Olivia and Jason shared prices equally and pretty all through their [relationship], together with all the pieces associated to the kids,” the insider defined. “Jason took it upon himself to provoke the proceedings within the first place to make sure that the youngsters could be correctly cared for by each mother and father based mostly on the court docket deciding what’s honest financially going ahead.”
The Saturday Evening Stay alum and the New York Metropolis native have been locked in a custody battle since early 2022 when Sudeikis served Wilde with custody docs whereas she was presenting at CinemaCon.
“Papers had been drawn as much as set up jurisdiction referring to the kids of Ms. Wilde and Mr. Sudeikis,” a supply solely informed Us on the time, including that the Emmy winner didn’t know when the paperwork could be delivered. “He would by no means condone her being served in such an inappropriate method.”
Wilde then alleged that the general public doc serving was an intentional transfer on the a part of her ex-fiancé, calling it an “outrageous” tactic in August 2022 court docket paperwork. Sudeikis subsequently argued that he didn’t need Wilde served in entrance of the kids, both at house, at college or at her then-boyfriend Harry Types‘ residence.
“I perceive that the method server had solely carried out her job; nonetheless, I deeply remorse what occurred,” the We’re the Millers star mentioned in a court docket submitting final 12 months. “Olivia’s discuss was an essential occasion for Olivia, each professionally and personally, and I’m very, very sorry that the incident marred her particular second.”
Final month, Wilde accused the comic in a court docket submitting of performing with “dangerous religion” and litigating her “into debt,” partly due to his makes an attempt to have their custody battle heard in New York relatively than California, the place she primarily lives. “The sealed and personal paperwork that had been leaked at this time are the utmost breach of belief and by no means supposed for public consumption,” a rep for the actress mentioned after the Day by day Mail revealed excerpts of the docs final month. “This personal household matter, involving younger youngsters, has continued to be a tabloid fixture and the press protection relationship again a 12 months has been relentless and traumatic. Olivia solely continues to be targeted on coparenting her youngsters and shifting previous this troublesome interval swiftly and drama-free.”
On March 24, a choose dominated that the custody petition ought to be heard in California. The choice got here greater than six months after Sudeikis first tried to maneuver the case.
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Regardless of the drama, the exes have been noticed on a number of events with the youngsters at Otis’ soccer video games, smiling and laughing collectively. At one level throughout a match on Sunday, April 2, the twosome hugged on the sidelines.
