Tyrese Gibson now has to pay $10,690 a month in child support to estranged wife Samantha Lee.
A judge issued the “best interest” injunction in a Georgia courtroom on Tuesday for the exes’ 3-year-old daughter, Soraya Lee.
The ‘Fast & the Furious’ franchise star, 43, must also maintain a $1.9 million life insurance plan with Soraya as the beneficiary and Lee as the manager.
The former couple has been ordered to split any daycare or school 50/50 and maintain health insurance.
On hearing the news, Gibson didn’t look particularly excited. The judge spoke to him directly about how this decision “levels the economic playing field”.
“I want you both to love your child, and I want you both to tell your child to love the other parent because that’s how we get successful people,” the judge said.
“Nobody has won here and nobody has lost. The child lost because she doesn’t have her parents together. Minimize the consequences of that loss. Minimize it in any way, shape and form you can.
The judge emphasized that the child support was “not a punishment” for Gibson.
“You will see how much it will bring your child. Put that money where it belongs – in the child,” he added.
“FaceTime with your kids. There is no amount of money that replaces that, because you can’t buy time. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. Spend every minute you can because you blink and they are 25.”
Gibson and Lee announced their divorce in December 2020 after nearly four years of marriage.
“Our intention is to remain best friends and strong co-parents. We feel incredibly blessed to have found each other and are extremely grateful for the 4 years we have been married to each other,” they both wrote via Instagram at the time.
The former couple secretly tied the knot on Valentine’s Day in 2017 and welcomed Soraya in October 2018. Gibson also shares 13-year-old daughter Shayla with ex-wife Norma Gibson, whom he was married to from 2007 to 2009.