A judge has ordered Hunter Biden’s financial records protected from the public in an ongoing paternity case in Arkansas.
Circuit Judge Holly Meyer ruled on Monday that all information the first child submits to the court in connection with his claim for reduced child support payments, including financial records, will remain sealed.
Only the case attorneys or expert witnesses hired to testify will have access to the financial records, Meyer ruled.
In her order, Meyer addressed the political interest in Biden’s finances, which could include the names of those who bought his paintings and how much they paid for them.
One was priced at nearly a quarter of a million dollars in a gallery exhibit late last year.
Both Biden and his Manhattan art dealer Georges Berges have refused to provide any information about the buyers.
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“There is good cause for the protection of the parties’ private information in this case,” Meyers wrote, adding that “the court is not interested in the political nature or issues surrounding this case.”
“This is a child support case and the court has and will continue to treat these parties like any other member of this judicial district,” added Meyer, who began his term as a circuit judge in January 2019.
The paternity case was reopened last September after Biden sought to reduce child support payments to Lunden Roberts, the mother of his 4-year-old daughter, Navy Joan Roberts. Biden’s income took center stage in the case after he cited a “material change in (his) financial circumstances, including, but not limited to, his income” as the reason for reducing his payments to Roberts.
The amount you paid is not included in the filing. In January, Roberts filed a motion to change her daughter’s last name to Biden, saying it would improve her daughter’s life because she “now stands for being well educated, successful, financially savvy and politically powerful.”
However, Biden, who is being investigated for his overseas affairs, battled alcohol and crack addictions and was seen in leaked photos waving a gun naked with a prostitute, said it would not be a good time for his daughter to take his presidential surname.
Instead, he argued that his daughter should decide for herself once “contempt for Biden’s name isn’t at its peak.”
Neither Roberts, her attorney, nor the attorney representing Biden responded to requests for comment.
