President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is mired in a contentious and highly personal child support battle with an Arkansas woman who is the mother of one of his daughters.
The parties reached a settlement in 2020 where Hunter Biden would pay monthly child support of $20,000 to Lunden Roberts, but Hunter Biden reopened the case last year by asking a judge to reduce the payments.
The case has since morphed into a partisan proxy war of sorts, pitting the president’s son against Republican lawyers who are trying to get their hands on his financial records – including many of the same materials that House GOP lawmakers are seeking as part of their probes into the Biden family.
Here’s a breakdown of what’s coming up next the high-profile case.
This is the deadline for both parties to turn over some additional material and answer another round of written questions as part of the discovery process.
Independence County Circuit Judge Holly Meyer has ordered Hunter Biden to provide more fulsome answers to written questions about his finances, including more detailed responses about his art sales and tax returns.
The judge also ordered Roberts to provide more information about any income she receives from working at her father’s gun store in Batesville, Arkansas. Both parties are also required to turn over any text messages or emails that they wrote about the case or about the other person.
These disclosures will not be public. They will only be shared among the opposing legal teams.
This is when Garrett Ziegler, a potential trial witness, will sit for a sworn deposition. Roberts is trying to bring in Ziegler – a former Trump White House aide who has promoted right-wing conspiracy theories – as an “expert witness” to bolster her case.
Ziegler runs a website that has published emails, texts,…
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