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Gone quiet · last update Jun 29, 2023 / Hunter Biden

Hunter Biden's paternity and child support case in Arkansas

Overview · reviewed October 24, 2026

Hunter Biden and Lunden Roberts, an Arkansas woman who is the mother of his daughter, fought in an Arkansas court over child support after a 2020 DNA test established that he was the girl's father. In June 2023 they settled, agreeing to reduce the $20,000 a month he had been paying.[1]

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Coverage over time

Share of tracked outlets · monthly average of weekly shares (UTC)

Sep 2022: average weekly share 1% (left 0%, center 0%, right 1%), from 3 of 3 weeksOct 2022: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksNov 2022: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksDec 2022: average weekly share 1% (left 0%, center under 1%, right 1%), from 4 of 4 weeksJan 2023: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksFeb 2023: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksMar 2023: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksApr 2023: average weekly share 1% (left under 1%, center under 1%, right 1%), from 4 of 4 weeksMay 2023: average weekly share 1% (left under 1%, center under 1%, right under 1%), from 5 of 5 weeksJun 2023: average weekly share 2% (left 1%, center 1%, right 1%), from 4 of 4 weeksJul 2023: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksAug 2023: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksSep 2023: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksOct 2023: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksNov 2023: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksDec 2023: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksJan 2024: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksFeb 2024: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksMar 2024: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksApr 2024: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksMay 2024: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksJun 2024: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksJul 2024: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksAug 2024: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksSep 2024: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksOct 2024: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksNov 2024: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksDec 2024: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksJan 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksFeb 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksMar 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksApr 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksMay 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksJun 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksJul 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksAug 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksSep 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksOct 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksNov 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksDec 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksJan 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksFeb 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksMar 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksApr 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksMay 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksJun 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksJul 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksAug 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksSep 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksOct 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksNov 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 2 of 2 weeks, so far

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Each bar is the share of the outlets on our Left / Center / Right rating scale that we tracked publishing that week which carried reporting on this story, split by the outlets' ratings. Over more than two years each bar is a month: the average of that month's weekly shares, so the shape stays readable. The weekly table below keeps every week. We track more outlets now than in the archive, so a share keeps earlier and later weeks comparable. An outlet counts once a week however much it published, and outlets in one ownership or syndication group count as one on each side they appear on. A rating describes the outlet, not the report. A gap means no such reports were collected that week, not that nothing was reported anywhere. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC, so a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week.

Weekly counts, outlets and reports (6 weeks with coverage)
Outlets on the rating scale that carried this story each week, of the outlets tracked that week, newest first
Week of (UTC)LeftCenterRightOf trackedShareReceipts
Jun 26, 2023611522 of 2798%
Jun 12, 20231135 of 2502%
May 1, 20232529 of 2564%
Apr 24, 2023131014 of 2555%
Dec 26, 20220246 of 1634%
Sep 12, 20220055 of 1883%

Latest coverage

The newest reporting in this story's record.

  1. Jun 28, 2023 · first reported · Headline from NBC10 Philadelphia

    Hunter Biden reaches child support settlement with Arkansas woman

Background

The two went back to court over money and over the girl's name. In 2022, Hunter Biden asked the court to lower his child support payments, citing a substantial change in his financial circumstances.[2] That December, Roberts asked for the girl's last name to be changed to Biden, saying the change would preserve her legacy as a member of the Biden family.[3]

The case grew more contentious in 2023. Roberts's lawyers asked the court to jail him for ignoring orders to turn over financial records,[4] and the judge ordered him to attend all hearings in person.[5] At a hearing in May, the judge ordered him to answer more written questions about his investments, art sales and other finances,[6] and in June he sat for a in Little Rock.[7] Weeks later the two reached their settlement. Roberts said he had never seen or contacted his daughter.[1] His federal criminal cases, his laptop and his lawsuits against his critics are followed in separate arcs in this series.

Supporting stories (7)
  1. Hunter Biden reaches child support settlement with Arkansas woman
  2. Nets Ignore Hunter Biden Crying Poor, Wants Child Support Lowered
  3. Mom of Hunter Biden's child wants "benefit" of his last name
  4. Hunter Biden may be living at the White House to evade legal papers from his baby mama
  5. Hunter Biden ordered to appear in Arkansas court for paternity case
  6. Hunter Biden appears in Arkansas court for hearing in paternity case
  7. Hunter Biden to be deposed for paternity case in Arkansas

The full record

Each date is when an update was first reported.

All 7 recorded updates

June 2023

  1. Hunter Biden reaches child support settlement with Arkansas womanHeadline from Thv11 · 22 outlets
  2. Hunter Biden to be deposed for paternity case in ArkansasHeadline from Axios · 5 outlets

April 2023

  1. Hunter Biden appears in Arkansas court for hearing in paternity caseHeadline from NBC News · 9 outlets
  2. Hunter Biden ordered to appear in Arkansas court for paternity caseHeadline from New York Post · 13 outlets
  3. Hunter Biden may be living at the White House to evade legal papers from his baby mamaHeadline from New York Post · 4 outlets

December 2022

  1. Mom of Hunter Biden's child wants "benefit" of his last nameHeadline from Newsweek · 6 outlets

September 2022

  1. Nets Ignore Hunter Biden Crying Poor, Wants Child Support LoweredHeadline from NewsBusters · 5 outlets

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