Celebrity Justice
Game Over? Leinart Settles Child Support Fight

The brutal child support war between NFL stud Matt Leinart and baby mama Brynn Cameron finally came to end late last week -- but closure didn't come cheap!

TMZ has learned that Leinart will shell out $15,000 per month in child support, around half of what Cameron claimed she needed to care for the couple's nine-month-old son, Cole.

But Leinart's legal battles aren't over yet -- the QB will be back in court August 13 to fight for the right to spend more time with his kid.



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1. If he wants to be in his son's Life, I doubt that he has to fight for that right. Brynn Cameron is not that dumb. She still loves Matt!

Posted at 11:44AM on Jul 30th 2007 by ja

2. WHAT baby requires 30,000$ a month to care for???? Wow, how am I raising 5 kids on 70,000 a year???

Posted at 11:47AM on Jul 30th 2007 by cindy

3. i'd want him to be my baby's daddy!!! :)

Posted at 11:47AM on Jul 30th 2007 by sarah is coooooool

4. A tragedy that this child will be forced to survive on only $15,000 per month when his 'father' makes millions. What is this world coming to? Is there no justice? That's only $180,000 per year or $3,780,000 by the time he is a college graduate. What will Leinhart pocket during this time, I wonder?

Posted at 11:47AM on Jul 30th 2007 by Roger Rogaine

5. holy cross eyed getting fat batman

Posted at 11:53AM on Jul 30th 2007 by Doug

6. Is that a picture of Jimmy Kimmel?

Posted at 11:53AM on Jul 30th 2007 by Doug

7. Baby mommy SHOULD put most of that 15,000 in an account for her son when hes 21. Unfortunately, she will probably have a new car, wardrobe, home, and staff in the first year. Seriously, I'm all for fair child support, but you KNOW this babys mommy saw dollar signs. I HAVE a baby, I KNOW what it costs a month to raise her, and i'm not shopping at the dollar store. It doesnt require 30,000 per month.

Posted at 11:54AM on Jul 30th 2007 by cindy

8. I feel bad for the hundreds of thousand women raising children on just a few hundreds dollars of month but this recent graduate of USC Queen needs 15k a month.

Absolute outrage and sets women rights back 100 years.

Posted at 11:54AM on Jul 30th 2007 by This makes me hate women

9. Baby Cole needs more than $6,000.00 per month; not just for diapers and formula. Every time his business savvy mother, Brynn Cameron, picks up the telephone to order up some Blue Chip stocks, invests into commercial real estate, or other business investment - that's easily $30,000.00 a pop. Cole Leinart will not have to worry about a college education.

Posted at 12:02PM on Jul 30th 2007 by ja

10. "NFL stud Matt Leinart" - looks inbred in this photo. Does he have lips? Well, to each his own I always say.

Posted at 12:02PM on Jul 30th 2007 by Pretty As A Picture

11. I knew she would not get $30,000 a month! $6,000 should be enough to raise a kid for anyone let alone $15,000..........

Posted at 12:11PM on Jul 30th 2007 by john holmes

12. Child support is supposedly for the child. But there is no accountability on how it is spent, nor any needs testing.

For example if parent A without custody makes 50K and Parent B with custody makes 2 million, in some areas the "low income" Parent A will pay 20-30% of their GROSS before taxes income, plus a share of day care costs, plus a share of medical, plus prepaid college expenses in advance.

Meanwhile the other parent does not really need that money, but can spend it on anything they want.

If you consider parent A, they will need to change their lifestyle unless they are getting alimony from the higher income person (does not always happen).

Having said all of that...parent A will see the child about 4 full days a month on average. Unless that is blocked in which case the courts don't tend to be able to help much if the custodial parent is female.

They get no rebate for the fact that their own residence must ALSO have child accommodations. For example a 2BR apt versus a 1 BR. So that extra cost is born by parent A alone, plus they have to pay for part of the home at parent Bs.

It's not always so harsh but there is no shortage of examples where it is.

Posted at 12:15PM on Jul 30th 2007 by Stan

13. 7. The girl lives at home with her parents and the baby.

Posted at 12:16PM on Jul 30th 2007 by Debra

14. 7. The girl lives at home with her parents and the baby.

Posted at 12:16PM on Jul 30th 2007 by Debra

15. She wont live with mommy and daddy for long!!

Posted at 12:18PM on Jul 30th 2007 by cindy

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