A judge has ordered Hunter Biden to attend all court hearings in his ongoing Arkansas paternity dispute.
“From now on… I want both of your clients at every hearing I conduct,” Independence County Circuit Judge Holly Meyer told counsel for Hunter Biden and Lunden Roberts, the mother of his unacknowledged 4-year-old daughter, Navy.
Meyer slammed the lawyers on a Zoom call on Monday, April 24, arguing that the litigation was taking too long.
She warned, “I will no longer allow us to excuse clients,” according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Hunter Biden is suing Roberts for child support for their daughter, Navy, who was born in August 2018.
Hunter, 53, will be compelled to attend the next in-person hearing on May 1 at 9 a.m.
The verdict came after Brent Langdon, Hunter Biden’s attorney in the paternity claim, informed her that a laptop associated with his client — presumably holding income tax data — was still in a repair shop.
Meyer and Langdon sparred, with the judge pressing the attorney to say whether the laptop belonged to his client.
Langdon tried to separate himself from “all that stuff” surrounding the famed laptop, saying he was “not even in a position to even begin to answer that question.”
The exchange occurred after Langdon filed a motion seeking a restraining order against Garret Ziegler, a former adviser to President Donald Trump and head of the nonprofit Marco Polo, whom Roberts had called as an expert witness on Hunter’s laptop contents.
Last year, Ziegler, a Biden foe, published a 644-page examination of the laptop.
Meyer refused to impose a temporary restraining order against Ziegler.
