Hunter Biden's child will get some of his art as part of support settlement

Hunter Biden has settled his child support case in Arkansas, according toa court filing released Thursday.

The settlement, announced in Arkansas state court, ends a bitter dispute between President Joe Biden’s younger son and Lunden Roberts, the mother of their 4-year-old child, over reducing his child support payments.

The settlement ends the yearslong dispute between the younger Biden and Roberts, which started when Roberts filed a lawsuit in 2019 seeking child support and health care for her child, who she claimed was Biden’s. After a paternity test proved Biden was the child’s father, he agreed in 2020 to pay $20,000 a month in child support.

Though it was unclear from the filing what the new payments will be, the president’s son will “assign to the child” some of his paintings, “which shall vary in size with a minimum size of 24x24.” The number of paintings along with the new amount for the child support payments were both redacted from the filing.

Additionally, “the child shall select the painting which shall either be sent to the child” or to a gallery designated by Roberts, the filing says.

The New York City gallery exhibiting Hunter Biden’s work in 2021 estimated his paintings to be worth between $75,000 and $500,000 apiece — numbers that previously raised concerns about the possibility that someone would buy the art as a way to curry favor with the Biden family. The younger Biden took up painting while recovering from drug and alcohol addiction.