Dennis Quaid Files to End Child Support Payments

Dennis Quaid is asking a court to cut off the nearly $14,000 he sends each month in child support to ex-wife Kimberly Buffington. In a May 20 filing, the 72-year-old actor petitioned to end his $13,750 monthly payments for twins Thomas and Zoe, who turn 18 this year and are set to graduate high school in June, according to documents obtained by People. Quaid points to the pair's 2018 divorce agreement, which says child support can stop "when a child completes 12th grade (if still under 19 and a full-time high school student) or reaches the other enumerated endpoints, whichever occurs first."

He's also asking that any extra support he owes if his income tops $1,314,000 be prorated to each child's graduation date rather than calculated on his full 2026 earnings. In the 2018 agreement, two years after the couple separated for a second time, they agreed that Buffington would have custody 75% of the time, because of Quaid's "career and business schedule," USA Today reports. Quaid and Buffington, his third wife, welcomed the twins in 2007; he also shares son Jack with ex-wife Meg Ryan. Quaid married his fourth wife, Laura Savoie, in June 2020.