Game Over? Leinart Settles Child Support Fight

31. Normally, I enjoy TMZ but they are really twisting this to make Brynn look like a gold-digger. Her lawyer asked for a percentage of his income. That worked out to about 4% @ 30K/mos. Her lawyer drew up the figure, not Brynn. I'm sure lots of Dads would like to only have to shell out around 2% of their income.

Also, anyone notice he suddenly petitions for time with his kid AFTER she says he doesn't come around very much? Not to mention he needs to see his son right before training camp...hmmm..maybe if he had been around, she wouldn't have said otherwise. Hell, maybe had he been any sort of man and not cheated on Brynn with Paris Hilton, maybe Cole would have a two parent family, instead of a Disneyland Dad & a mom who has to fight his "loving father" for him to step up.

Posted at 8:44PM on Jul 30th 2007 by Mary-Helen

32. he just wants to molest his kid, that's just what cross eyed freaks do

Posted at 1:28PM on Jul 30th 2007 by Coco Arquette

33. Can't feel to bad, you have to be CAUTIOUS

THese guys are NEVER clever enough to say I'll pay the rent I'll buy my childs own clothes I'll pay for schooling and give about 2,000 in grocery money. But I will not give her money directly. Oh Well!

Posted at 1:45PM on Jul 30th 2007 by Just Saying

34. Amber - why does having sex and getting prego by a rich man entitle her or the kid to a certain lifestyle? If the mom would like her child to have a $15k or $30k a month lifestyle maybe she should have planned a pregnancy after EARNING that income or at least marrying a man who can support her desired lifestyle. Children should be supported - they shouldn't be used as a way of leveraging past lovers for money or used as an instrument for revenge.

Posted at 1:48PM on Jul 30th 2007 by Amber & Me

35. Ignorance is bliss.. if this cross eyed freak paid for the expenses directly it would only mean he would be paying that amount plus the $15k per month. The legal system doesnt work that way..

Posted at 1:55PM on Jul 30th 2007 by ugh

36. [[[[[THese guys are NEVER clever enough to say I'll pay the rent I'll buy my childs own clothes I'll pay for schooling and give about 2,000 in grocery money. But I will not give her money directly. Oh Well!]]]]]

Child support is not set like that. It has nothing to do with need, and sometimes nothing to do with being a parent. It's set by the court according to the guidelines in the state in question. The states vary. Sometimes a parent will file in one high child support state and then decide to go live in another state with lower costs while collecting the high support from the first state's rules. This complicates the other parent's ability to see their own child unless they keep moving to whereever the custodial parent moves. Sometimes there is no suitable work in the new area but meanwhile the high support continues if they have to job search. It can take a long time to get support reduced and there are no rebates, just adjustments for the future. If you have been paying support for a child you later discover is not yours...it can take many years to stop that payment...and again there is no refund for money already paid in. Also..when there is a move...if the moving parent with children so chooses..visitation can be ended on false pretenses that are never punished if false...and it can take 6 months or a year to reeestablish visitation. Then by that time there may have been lots or parental alienation...

What we do to kids in the name of trying to help them is just wrong in many cases.

Posted at 2:01PM on Jul 30th 2007 by Stan

37. if my husband has to pay 17% of his income, so should he! period!!!!!!!!! This doesn't happen every day , not everyone makes his kind of money. Regardless, this should be a lesson for everyone. You play, you pay! If he starts making more money, she could go back and file for an ajustment or vice versa , if he makes less , he could go back for adjustments.

Posted at 2:55PM on Jul 30th 2007 by hello!

38. "If she was just money hungry - he should have been smarter and used a condom! He's the dumb one!"

You mean if he had a crystal ball.

Your entire comment doesn't make rational sense and to say that because its pocket change to him he should give it away. Spoken like someone waiting for a payday. Stop counting and spending other peoples money and do something.

Posted at 3:02PM on Jul 30th 2007 by 10 to 1 'Doesn't Matter is a gold diggin baby mama

39. If he lives in a penthouse or whatever, so should the mother and their child. Yes, of course the mother will benifit, but what should the mother do???? Live outside in the backyard????? You people are dense. You don't dress your child better than you dress yourself. MORONS!

Posted at 3:05PM on Jul 30th 2007 by wtf!

40. Thanks Stan

I think child support has to be according to a child's father and/or mother's income.

Leinhart's kid cannot wear Dollar store clothes or live in a small apt., public schools, etc.

However, bryn is getting enough. leinhart bought a car for her. he wants to see his kid so he is going to have to battle her incourt for time. What does that tell you about her?
She want s child support ,wich is fine and is a given, but she wants a few hundred thousand a year for her own personal support.
I think guys like this should buy a house for the mother to live in with the child,but the house is in his name. In other words,TE BITCH don't own it!!! buy a car ($40,000-$30,000) for her in her name. School tutiton goes from his lawyers/accountnats directly to the school as does any school bills. In other words,THE BITCH don't ever see the check. Same for med/dental/vision insurance. All she needs is the card for this and the co pay goes direclty to him. Give theBitch a credit card for the child's shopping meaning there should , whenhe or his accts get the monthly statement , no charges for spa treatments, $1000.00 handbags and shoes, plastic surgery like chem peel, teeth whitening, etc.
I feel so sorry fort hese kids, Cole Leinahrt, Mel B's Spices kid for Eddie Murphy etc. The oldest trick in the book ladies, is the most hurtful one to your own child and you will not get that man by pulling the ole pregnancy.

Posted at 3:23PM on Jul 30th 2007 by Buffalo , NY

41. A crystal ball...you must not know how children are conceived. I'm so sorry for you.

As far as gold diggin' - don't need to be! I provide for myself thanks! Sorry that you are struggling. Only someone who goes without could be that bitter.

Yes - it is pocket change to him. He makes millions and now has a child that should be taken care of by him. If he made only $20,000 a year he still would need to pay his fair share. He makes more, therefore his share is more.

Posted at 3:12PM on Jul 30th 2007 by Doesn't matter

42. Use your head - because people on here are criticizing the amount or the motives does not mean they suggest giving NOTHING. Child Support should be for the CHILD. If she wanted spousal support she should have MARRIED him.

Posted at 3:12PM on Jul 30th 2007 by lol

43. LOL Exactly.

Posted at 3:20PM on Jul 30th 2007 by Cindy

44. lol let me slow down and help you with the Crystal Ball comment:

How was he to know she was "money hungry" - you all don't come with signs around your little necks.

You see I wasn't insinuating he wasn't aware that having sex could lead to babies. Im sure you make tons of dough hunny - just keep prickin those condoms with the pins.. you will EARN more paydays soon!

Posted at 3:20PM on Jul 30th 2007 by let me slow it down for you

45. 12. Stan, didn't you once write that you were in arrears on child support? Because baby's mama can't be paying for things for the child on IOUs when baby's daddy didn't pay the court-ordered support on time. Oops...you forgot to explain that part.

Posted at 3:23PM on Jul 30th 2007 by Duh