The ongoing legal saga involving Hunter Biden took a new turn as the mother of his child, Lunden Roberts, requested an Arkansas judge to consider his arrest due to what she claims is a breach of their child support agreement. This development, revealed in fresh court documents, brings the child support case back to the forefront.
On Tuesday, Roberts, aged 34, made an impassioned appeal to the court. Her request reopens the case against Hunter Biden, who has left his past controversies behind to pursue a career in art. The case, settled in 2023, had initially concluded with Hunter agreeing to pay $5,000 monthly in child support. Additionally, he was to meet with their daughter, then four years old, and allow her to select some of his artworks.
However, the recent filing alleges that Hunter has not adhered to this agreement. Roberts is urging Judge Holly Meyer to impose a civil penalty by detaining Hunter at the Independence County Detention Center until he complies with the court’s orders.
Roberts’ filing paints a poignant picture of their daughter, Navy Joan, referred to as “MC1” in the documents. She expresses a longing for her father’s presence, claiming he has distanced himself. According to Roberts, Navy Joan once remarked that she looked forward to reaching heaven, believing it would be the place where she could finally spend time with her father, who she perceives as absent due to his busy life and distant residence.
Roberts wrote in the filing that their daughter Navy Joan – given the alias ‘MC1’ in the documents – yearned for contact with her father, who allegedly ‘ghosted’ her.
‘MC1, who believes her father will go to heaven, once stated that she ‘could not wait to get to heaven’ so she could ‘be with [her] dad’ because her dad does not see or talk to her because her dad ‘lives far away and is really busy,’ Roberts wrote in the legal filing.
Hunter initially denied paternity, but it was proven by a court-mandated DNA test, after which he began to engage with his youngest daughter, Roberts said.
‘The child and her dad started building the foundations of a missing, but exceedingly important, father-daughter relationship,’ her filing said.
Hunter Biden could face jail time after the mother of his daughter accused him of failing to live up to a child support agreement
Lunden Roberts, 34, filed an emotional plea to the judge on Tuesday, reopening her child support case against the felonious former First Son
‘The defendant and his daughter talked several times during a series of scheduled calls and were able to bond.’
But she wrote that in 2024, ‘suddenly and without warning or explanation, Mr. Biden ghosted sweet, little MC1—who was then only five-years-old.’
Roberts claimed that Navy Joan, 6, had ‘recently experienced emotional trauma at a family member’s wedding when she realized that her dad would not walk her down the aisle or dance with her at her own wedding reception.’
Roberts claimed that Hunter had sent some paintings to his daughter, but that they were not ones picked out by the child – and that what was important to her was the contact with the little girl that the agreement would entail.
‘MC1 received some paintings, but they were the ones chosen by Mr. Biden and not MC1,’ Roberts wrote in the filing.
‘The defendant’s actions are a willful and contemptuous violation of this court’s prior orders.
‘This court should allow the child to select her paintings—which will be her only real connection to her father and his side of the family to date.’
Lunden Roberts claimed Hunter has failed to follow through on his child support payments and asked Judge Holly Meyer to ‘incarcerate him’
‘To this day, MC1 has not heard again from her father, and this is baffling to the plaintiff and her family because Mr. Biden said that he had ‘lived in guilt and remorse every second of every day that [he] hasn’t been in [MC1’s] life,’ the filing said.
‘It is now clear that Mr. Biden’s statement was only meant for the purpose it accomplished—successfully inducing Ms. Roberts to agree to take less money for her daughter’s support.’
Roberts also asked the judge to reassess Hunter’s monthly child support payments, pointing to an apparent lavish lifestyle by the Biden family.
‘All of MC1’s siblings live at a means above that of the average American. For Thanksgiving of 2025, the Biden family (minus MC1, who is not allowed to participate in family activities) gathered at an exclusive Nantucket locale,’ Roberts wrote.
‘Additionally, all of Mr. Biden’s children except MC1 were seen at renowned Nantucket restaurants and other social scenes.
President Joe Biden (left) and Hunter Biden (right) go shopping in Nantucket together over the Thanksgiving holiday. The president pardoned his son the day after the trip
‘No one can force Mr. Biden into being a good dad for MC1, but this court can make it so that MC1 has, at least, the same level of support as MC1’s younger half-brother.’
Hunter claimed in his 2021 memoir that he had ‘no recollection’ of Roberts, after she sued him for paternity and child support.
But the Daily Mail revealed records from his abandoned laptop showing he employed her at his firm, after reportedly meeting her at a Washington DC strip club.
The two had a fling around December 2017, and the baby was born in August of 2018.
But Hunter’s text messages from the laptop show he asked his assistant to make sure she had been kicked off his company’s health insurance plan just three months after the birth.
Even after a DNA test proved he was the father, the former president’s son claimed he did not have enough money to pay child support – despite living in a $12,000-per-month home in Hollywood and driving a Porsche at the time.
Roberts’ filing was first reported by conservative nonprofit Marco Polo on social media site X.
The organization published an extensive report about Hunter’s abandoned laptop and the evidence of alleged criminality therein.
