Olivia Wilde is requesting Jason Sudeikis start paying child support

[hewontgo]

Olivia Wilde is requesting Jason Sudeikis start paying child support.https://t.co/ZAXYPNPBda
- Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) April 5, 2023
Olivia Wilde requested that a Los Angeles judge order Jason Sudeikis to pay child support "retroactive" to the date in which she first filed the case. She claims to have more than $107,000 in monthly expenses,

Comments

[ahkna]

Isn't it highly standard to do this kind of stuff in a divorce? You have to cover everything or else he'll use it against you in the future.

[la_petite_singe]

I'm fairly sure they were never married, so idk if that makes things messier or less so.

[ahkna]

Probably worse because kids make everything mega complicated

[theylezharold]

I’m always a bit sus of couples who are engaged for years, like they were (I think for 7 years or so?).

It would appear to indicate a lot of hesitation to marry and make that legal commitment.

[ahkna]

My mom always used to say that if you can put it off for years, you can put it off forever and I've always thought there was a kernel of truth in that.

Engagement is like going up the tower and getting ready to leap off the diving board, the stairs to the top all the necessary planning and jumping off is getting married. But perpetual engagements are like getting in line but just standing there, never going up. Why bother getting in line if you never move towards the goal?

[cassismagic]

[my_moloko]

Maybe not formally but surely common law spouses, right? How many years did they live together?

[drnilescrane]

neither CA or NY recognize common law marriage, the states they were in

[my_moloko]

Oh well that makes it more interesting.

[helyanwe89]

Most states do not recognize it, I think only like 10 do.

[archersangel]

In the U.S., most states have abolished common-law marriage by statute. However, common-law marriage can still be contracted in eight states and the District of Columbia. Once they meet the requirements of common-law marriage, couples in those true common-law marriages are considered legally married for all purposes and in all circumstances.

Common-law marriage can still be contracted in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Oklahoma and the District of Columbia.[46][47][48]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-law_marriage

I think CA will respect it if it was contracted in TX for example.

[theactualworst]

I feel like a broken record in these posts lol but they never married.

This is pretty standard child support/custody stuff though.

[ahkna]

I don't really think it makes much difference whether they were legally married when there's kids involved. It's still a divorce in pretty much every way that counts.

[theactualworst]

Not really. Dissolving a marriage involves division of assets, separation periods, maintenance, who is owed what etc. Custody has always been its own beast so in some ways it’s easier to only have to deal with just that and not also a divorce.

[ky16]

Yes but people are very misinformed when it comes to what child support actually is. It doesn’t matter how much money she has, if he has significantly more it creates an unequal situation between the two homes, child support is level that.

Her filing for him to cover her legal fees is also standard in California (if one party has significantly more money). That plus paying less child support is likely part of why he’s still trying to move the case to NYS

[theylezharold]

This Laura Wasser interview in the New Yorker helped me understand California law better (and she’s Olivia’s lawyer, and the lawyer that Laura Dern was based on in “Marriage Story.”

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