Hunter Biden’s bid to delay his deposition in his child support case has been flat out rejected by a judge, who ordered him to be in Arkansas in two weeks, according to new court papers filed on Wednesday.
Biden was hit with a paternity suit last May by Lunden Roberts, 28, 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, the Independence County court ruled Biden was indeed the father, but a permanent child support arrangement still needs to be set so a deposition was scheduled for March 5, as well as a pretrial hearing for March 13.
The 50-year-old requested on Tuesday that his deposition to be pushed back, with his legal team claiming he wouldn’t be available until after April 1, as it emerged Biden has taken up painting as a hobby to stay ‘sane’.
That did not sit well with Judge Holly Meyer, who ripped into Biden during a conference call with his lawyers on Wednesday, saying: ‘Unless his hair is on fire, he needs to be in Arkansas and he needs to be in a deposition.’
Hunter Biden’s bid to delay his deposition in his child support case has been flat out rejected by a judge, who ordered him to be in Arkansas next month, according to papers filed on Wednesday. Biden was hit with a paternity suit last May by Lunden Roberts, 28, (right) who claimed he was the father of their 18-month-old child
His request did not sit well with Judge Holly Meyer (pictured), who ripped into Biden during a conference call with his lawyers on Wednesday, saying ‘Unless his hair is on fire, he needs to be in Arkansas and he needs to be in a 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 on Friday, 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.
Judge 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.
Biden has been laying low in Los Angeles with his new wife Melissa Cohen (pictured together on December 28, who is expecting their first child together, DailyMail.com first revealed last year. A piece that ran in The New York Times on Friday, reveals Biden took up painting as a hobby, telling the paper that painting was ‘literally keeping me sane’
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.
Judge 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
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.’