Hunter Biden will have to face his baby mama in court if he wants to slash paternity support for his four-year-old son, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The First Son, 53, asked an Arkansas judge last year to recalculate the money he pays each month to Lunden Roberts, the mother of Navy Joan Roberts, the girl he barely recognizes as his own.
But Hunter’s former flame refused to renegotiate, and instead the couple will settle their differences in open court when the case moves to a two-day bench trial in July.
If the recovering drug addict wants to win, they have until May 22 to submit detailed financial records showing why they have suffered a “substantial” loss of income, all of which will be made public.
The president’s son will also have to submit a plea in June in which lawyers for the 32-year-old Roberts will have the chance to question him about his various shady deals and ventures abroad.
Hunter Biden will have to face his baby mum Lunden Roberts in court for a two-day trial to reduce his child support payments, DailyMail.com can reveal
Hunter asked an Arkansas judge last year to reduce child support payments to Lunden Roberts for his daughter Navy Joan.
They’ll also want to know how Hunter’s finances may have taken a nosedive as he sells paintings for up to $500,000 each under his new guise as an abstract artist.
Roberts won a $2.5 million settlement from Hunter after taking him to court in 2019 and forcing him to take a DNA test to prove he fathered Navy Joan during their 2017 affair.
The adorable blonde-haired girl is the fourth of his five children, but neither he nor his parents Joe and Jill Biden have met the girl or publicly acknowledged her existence.
Hunter claimed during the bitter 10-month case that he was “unemployed and with no monthly income” despite living in a Hollywood rental of $12,000 a month and driving a Porsche.
But when ordered to produce financial records by an Independence County judge, he repeatedly failed to do so and instead settled out of court, the two sides announcing a “comprehensive final settlement of all issues.”
In September of last year, Hunter reopened the case, pleading poverty and writing: “Since the entry of the existing child support order, there has been a substantial material change in Petitioner’s financial circumstances, including, but not limited to, his or her income.”
Roberts refused to budge and raised the stakes by asking the court to officially change the name of his daughter Navy Joan Biden, to “benefit from carrying the Biden family name.”
His attorney, Clinton Lancaster, also sent out a new discovery request with hundreds of questions covering Hunter’s assets, earnings, offshore business in Ukraine and China, as well as payments to attorneys and agents.
Sources say the list also focused on Hunter’s recent income, asking him to detail the artwork he sold in the past two years, the names of the buyers and any paperwork related to the purchases.
If Hunter goes ahead, he has until May 22 to submit detailed financial records showing why he has suffered a “substantial” loss of income.
So far, Hunter has yet to comply, complaining that the lengthy interrogations are “vague and ambitious” and asking the court to strike down some of the inquiries.
He also opposes the name change on the grounds that it is a “political war” against the Biden family and the new nickname will rob the girl of her “peaceful existence.”
In a case schedule obtained by DailyMail.com, Circuit Judge Holly Meyer insists that both sides must fully comply with discovery requests by May 22, one day before the pretrial hearing.
The trial is scheduled for July 24-25 with Meyer warning the couple against any frivolous delay, writing: “No postponement will be granted unless good cause is shown.”
Navy Joan was born in August 2018, but remained a secret until Roberts sued Hunter for child support in her native Arkansas.
His ex-lover claimed in his 2021 memoir, Beautiful Things, that he was in such an “uproar” in the wake of his 2017 divorce from Kathleen Buhle that he couldn’t remember the names of the women he slept with.
“That is why I would later challenge in court the Arkansas woman who had a baby in 2018 and claimed the child was mine; he did not remember our meeting. That little connection I had with anyone,” Hunter wrote.
It was initially reported that Hunter met Roberts while she was working as a stripper at a DC club Hunter frequented.
But text messages recovered from her notoriously abandoned laptop showed that she was, in fact, on the payroll of Rosemont Seneca, Hunter’s investment firm.
Neither Joe Biden nor Hunter have met Navy Joan. Joe is seen holding his grandchild Beau from him at the White House.
Roberts and Hunter conceived Navy Joan around December 2017 while he was still in a relationship with his brother Beau’s widow, Hallie.
Navy Joan gets none of the advantages of having a president as a grandfather, nor the round-the-clock Secret Service protection enjoyed by the rest of Biden’s brood.
She and Hunter conceived Navy Joan around December 2017 while he was still in a relationship with his brother Beau’s widow, Hallie.
The couple remained in communication throughout her pregnancy until he abruptly called it off.
Hunter has never seen Navy Joan and was unable to distinguish her from a list of photographs, according to court documents.
He never met his 80-year-old grandfather Joe, even though the president fawns over his six other grandchildren and frequently brings them to events and speeches.
Navy Joan gets none of the benefits, nor the 24/7 Secret Service protection that the rest of the Biden brood enjoy.
Yet family friends say the young woman is “lovely, loved, secure and very happy” growing up in rural Arkansas blissfully unaware of her proximity to the caustic world of American politics.
In February 2022, Roberts testified before a Delaware grand jury investigating Hunter for alleged tax crimes, joining a growing list of former business partners and associates who have been implicated in the Department’s three-year undercover investigation. of Justice on their business abroad.
Federal prosecutors were particularly interested in what he learned about Hunter’s finances, according to his attorney.