Apparently $31,000 a month in child support–that’s $31,000 a month tax free–is insufficient for Hollywood agent Adam Venit’s ex-wife Jami. It reminds me of the title of an old Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers song–”Too Much Ain’t Enough.” Venit is probably also paying spousal support.
I can’t imagine that there’s much you can’t have or buy with $31,000 after-tax dollars a month, but apparently the ex claims that her kids have found some, and are unhappy. They found some completely unprompted by anyone else who lives with them and might have an interest in that money, of course.
Child Support 90210: In Beverly Hills, the joy of raising two 14-year-old twins isn’t priceless. It’s more like $370,000 a year
July 16, 2007ÂÂ
By FilmStew Staff
Based on the fact that Endeavor Talent Agency partner Adam Venit pulls in over $4 million in annual salary, a California court today denied his request to reduce his monthly child support payments to ex-wife Jami from $26,971 to $12,000 per month. In fact, Judge Marjorie Steinberg turned around and upped the stipend to $31,603.
But it isn’t this dollar amount, or the hefty attorney fees Venit was ordered to cough up, that merit attention in this case. Rather, what’s most striking about the 45-page judgment document is how it occasionally highlights the very peculiar pressures of growing up in 90210, as seen through the eyes of 14-year-old twins Michael and Sarah, and their remarried mom.
‘Even with the increase in child support since the November 8, 2002 order, there remained a huge disparity between the lifestyle the children had with their mother and the one they had with their father,’ an earlier deposition revealed (Jami’s current husband, Patrick Patterson, works for the Los Angeles Fire Department). ‘According to Jami, the children commented on the disparity. Michael, one of the twins, stated the mother only drives an Escalade while their ather drives a Rolls Royce. Michael also stated that Adam’s backyard is as big as a football field.’
‘Michael explained that it is so much bigger than Jami’s backyard [at the former couple's 5,500 square foot home in Encino, which she was awarded in the 1999 divorce]. Sarah wanted her soccer friends to go to her father’s [11,000 square foot] home to see how “cool†it was. Both twins stated that they wanted gates around Jami’s property because they live in a gated community with their father. They said they would feel much safer with a gate.’
‘The twins each have private bedrooms with their own bathrooms at their father’s home,’ it is further explained (Venit’s new household also now includes a daughter belonging to current wife Trina and two new children, for a total of five when everyone is staying at the ‘Big House’). ‘The twins made comments about the disparity in the two homes to their mother.’
The court decreed that where one party has an income capable of providing a lifestyle much in excess of the other parent (Jami), the children are entitled to life at a level closer to the “more opulent lifestyle,” even if that level of support may as “a practical matter produce a benefit for the (other) custodial parent.”‘ All in all, today’s decision would seem to take Jami from ‘Boo Hoo!’ to ‘Woo Hoo!’
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