The former stripper who gave birth to Hunter Biden’s child is asking an Arkansas judge to hold the former vice president’s son in contempt for defying court orders in the ongoing child support case.
Lunden Alexis Roberts, 28, is accusing Biden, 50, of missing a March 1 deadline to submit financial documents to Independence County Circuit Court.
Biden is said to have failed to comply with an order to hand over discovery materials like his source of income over the past five years as well as unredacted copies of his tax returns from 2017 and 2018.
He is also required to submit other documents that indicate his phone number and address as well as those of his wife, 32-year-old Melissa Cohen Biden, according to Page Six.
Lunden Alexis Roberts, 28, the former stripper who had a baby from Hunter Biden (right), is accusing the former vice president’s son of failing to meet deadlines to file paperwork in their ongoing child support case
Biden was hit with a paternity suit last May by Roberts, who claimed he was the father of their 18-month-old child, after the two met at a strip club that she worked at in Washington D.C.
Roberts is also seeking documents containing the contact information for Biden’s new wife, Melissa Cohen Biden (above)
Roberts’ lawyer, Clint Lancaster, slammed Biden, saying he ‘has no respect for this court’s orders, the legal process in this state, or the needs of his child support.’
Biden also failed to produce documents listing the companies that he owns as well as other financial documents, Roberts’ lawyer says.
Biden was hit with a paternity suit last May by Roberts, who claimed he was the father of their 18-month-old child, after the two met at a strip club that she worked at in Washington D.C.
Last month, a judge rejected Biden’s bid to delay his deposition in the case until April 1. The judge ordered Biden to appear in court in mid-March.
In January, the court ruled Biden was indeed the father, but a permanent child support arrangement still needs to be set.
So far, Biden has missed several deadlines and skipped out on two court hearings.
The judge, Holly Meyers, previously said that she would dismiss previous contempt motions if Biden submitted the necessary paperwork to Roberts by March 1.
A deposition has been scheduled for March 11 in Little Rock, according to a notice of deposition filed on Thursday.
A pretrial hearing has also been scheduled for March 13.
‘Unless his hair is on fire, he needs to be in Arkansas and he needs to be in a deposition,’ the judge told Biden’s lawyers last week after she rejected his motion to delay his deposition.
She also scoffed at Biden’s limited availability, according to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. She asked: ‘My question to you is, why could your client not be available until after April 1?
‘All the information I have is that he’s unemployed.’
A piece that ran in The New York Times last week reveals Biden has taken up painting as a hobby, telling the paper it’s ‘literally keeping me sane’, adding: ‘For years I wouldn’t call myself an artist. Now I feel comfortable saying it.’
He said he viewed painting as a form of therapy, admitting he had been addicted to crack cocaine for four years.
He added: ‘I want to protect this [art studio space]. The one thing I have left is my art. It’s the one thing they can’t take away from me or conflate with anything else.’
Roberts’ legal team now wants to know if Biden is making money from his art.
Meyer allowed for the deposition to be pushed back by a few days, stating he needed to turn up in Arkansas on either March 11 or March 12.
Biden has been laying low in Los Angeles with his new wife Melissa Cohen, who is expecting their first child together, DailyMail.com first revealed last year.
Hunter Biden is the son of former Vice President Joe Biden (seen above in April 2016)
The businessman had been prepping in case he was called to testify in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial over his ties to an Ukrainian energy company.
His father, former vice president Joe Biden, is in the running to become the Democratic party’s presidential candidate for the 2020 election.
Last month, Biden and Roberts finally came to an agreement for temporary child support.
Biden agreed to pay an undisclosed amount each month for their child, which started on February 1.
As part of the agreement, Biden has to retroactively pay support from November 2018, meaning he’ll have to cough up 14 months worth of support by March 1.
He will also have to pay Roberts’ legal fees and costs, according to court documents.
The child, whose gender is being kept secret, was born in August 2018.
Roberts had been demanding her former lover to turn over the past five years of his financial records to establish how much he should pay in support.
The agreed upon amount has been redacted from the court filing, but the court noted that because it ‘lacks sufficient information to determine child support based off the defendant’s income… it reserves judgement on temporary child support and final child support until after adequate discovery is completed and relevant evidence is available for a child support determination.’
It adds: ‘The Court specifically reserves the right to retroactively amend or modify child support without the need for the filing of a proper motion by either party to modify support.
‘If the evidence indicates that the defendant should have paid more in support than the amount set forth in this Order, the Court may order that he pay an additional amount after reviving credit for what he has paid.’