Kim Kardashian settles divorce with Kanye West, Ye pays $200,000 monthly in child support

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have reached a settlement in their divorce, avoiding a trial scheduled for next month.

The former couple and their attorney filed documents seeking a judge’s approval of the terms they agreed to, including a $200,000 monthly child support payment from West, who legally changed his name to Ye, to Kardashian. did.

According to documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, the two have joint custody and neither will pay child support for the other spouse.

A judge declared the two to be legally single at Kardashian’s request in March, ending their eight-year marriage, but decided that property and custody issues will be resolved in a trial that begins Dec. 14. The problem remained.

The two have four children, ages 3 to 9.

According to the settlement, Kardashian and Ye will split the costs of their children’s private security and private schools, including college, equally.

According to the settlement, they will also pay their respective debts. The two had a prenuptial agreement and kept most of their property separate.

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The couple started dating in 2012 and had their first child in 2013. West proposed later that year at the San Francisco Giants’ empty waterfront ballpark using a giant screen, and the two were married. married in a ceremony at a Renaissance fortress on May 24, 2014 in Florence, Italy.

When Kardashian first filed for divorce in February 2021, the two seemed headed for a heartfelt split on agreed terms.

Neither publicly spoke about the split until earlier this year, when Ye began lashing out on social media against Kardashian, her family, and then-boyfriend Pete Davidson. Some were not allowed to make important parenting decisions and were barred from their children’s birthday parties and other events.

Ye, who has fired two attorneys since filing for divorce, also raised some technical issues and demands, such as asking Kardashian’s new husband for the right to question him under oath, but Steve Judge Cochrane promptly refused.

The settlement comes on the heels of several companies cutting ties with Ye over offensive and anti-Semitic rhetoric that further undermined its already tarnished public image.

His latest attorney, Nicholas Salik, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the settlement.

It was the third marriage for reality TV superstar, businesswoman and influencer Kardashian, and the first for rap and fashion mogul Ye. They were one of the most closely followed celebrity unions in decades.

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