14 DAY TRIAL // Jon Cryer is the second highest paid actor in television right now, according to Forbes magazine, and it’s all thanks to his role on “Two and a Half Men.” His ex-wife Sarah Trigger believes his high paycheck means he should pay more in child support.
Jon and Sarah were married from 1999 to 2004, and they have a son together, Charlie Austin, for which he pays monthly child support to the tune of $8,000 (€5,797.5).
However, in court documents filed the other day and obtained by TMZ, Sarah argues that Jon makes enough money to pay ten times the amount in child support because Charlie’s rich school mates are making fun of him because he can’t afford the same things they can.
So, in order to right this wrong, Sarah believes a monthly payment of $89,000 (€64,600) should do the job nicely. After all, Jon can afford it because, she says, he’s making $2 million (€1.44 million) a month with the show.
“Sarah says life is awful. She says her son Charlie can't afford the ritzy summer camps his friends attend. She says Charlie's friends go on ‘exotic vacations in the summer and winter like Europe and Thailand.’ He can't go,” TMZ reports.
“Sarah says Charlie's friends at The Buckley School have ‘huge birthday parties at expensive places like Sky High Sports and they invite the entire grade.’ And worst of all... the Bar Mitzvahs. Sarah says, ‘Last year there were multiple Bar Mitzvahs and Bat Mitzvahs all with custom invitations, a dress code and huge private receptions afterward’,” the report adds.
Trigger argues that when the judge first set the child support at $8,000 (€5,797.5), she had custody of Charlie only about 4% of the time, but things have changed now that the boy spends equal amounts of time with both parents.
Cryer is yet to respond to the claims.