The New York Post e-Edition

Hunter faces cage

Ugly child-support fight may land 1st son in can

By PRISCILLA DeGREGORY

Hunter Biden could face jail time if he doesn’t show up for a court hearing next month in a nasty paternity case, new court papers show.

President Biden’s 53-year-old son must appear in a Batesville, Ark., court July 10 to answer claims by Lunden Roberts — the mother of his out-of-wedlock daughter — that he’s been withholding financial records in an effort to lower child support payments.

Circuit Court Judge Holly Meyer says that at the July hearing, she’ll consider ex-stripper Roberts’ bid for sanctions against Hunter for allegedly refusing to turn over the financials — including having him jailed for up to six months.

Roberts, 32, also wants Meyer to toss Hunter’s request to lower his $20,000 monthly child support payments for their 4-year-old daughter, Navy Joan Roberts, and to dismiss his opposition to efforts to change their daughter’s last name to Biden.

Roberts, who had a monthlong affair with Hunter, also wants the judge to order him to fork over $20,000 to cover the cost of her attorney fees while fighting the child support motion.

The judge said a motion for contempt against Hunter will likely hinge on the truth of his statements about his ability to pay.

At the last case hearing in May, Hunter claimed he’d already paid Roberts $750,000 since a DNA test confirmed Navy was his biological child, and that he’d since had a “substantial material change” in his financial situation.

At the same hearing, Meyer chided Hunter for overly redacting financial docs he submitted to support his claims for lower child support payments.

Hunter flew to and from the courthouse from DC on a luxury private jet owned by his close friend Kevin Morris — a trip that likely cost between $55,000 and $117,000 — after originally taking off from Los Angeles.

Roberts filed the paternity case in 2019 after Hunter denied he was the child’s father.

The embattled first son agreed to child support when the DNA test showed he was the dad — but the case was reopened in September when he asked the court to lower the payments.

Lawyers on both sides didn’t immediately return requests for comment Friday.

Hunter’s hard-partying ways were laid bare as a new trove of photos from his infamous laptop were posted online, showing 10,000 images that included naked pictures of himself in a hotel room surrounded by drug paraphernalia and women wearing lingerie.

CITY IN CRISIS

en-us

2023-06-10T07:00:00.0000000Z

2023-06-10T07:00:00.0000000Z

https://nypost.pressreader.com/article/281758453691697

New York Post