Kevin Federline is facing a costly legal fight now that the child support payments he received from Britney Spears have ended. City National Bank has sued the former backup dancer over debts tied to a credit card, a personal line of credit and a personal overdraft line.

Documents obtained by Page Six claim Federline, 48, owes at least $117,704 in total across the three accounts. The filing places a formidable price tag on the money troubles that emerged after the regular payments from Spears stopped reaching him.

The amount cited by the bank does not involve only one unpaid credit card balance. Its lawsuit covers three forms of borrowing connected to Federline, including the credit card, the personal line of credit and the personal overdraft line.

Federline signed his agreement with City National Bank in late November 2024. That timing fell right around the arrival of his final child support payment from Spears, the singer behind “Toxic” and the mother of his two children, Sean Preston and Jayden James.

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Federline initially received $40,000 each month in child support while raising Sean Preston and Jayden James in Hawaii. The monthly amount was later cut in half after Sean Preston turned 18, leaving Federline with payments of $20,000.

Britney Spears paid her ex-husband $20,000 a month for their two sons, and later nearly twice that. When the payments ended, he wrote a book saying the money "didn't stretch as far as you'd think."

In the video below, from June 2006, Dateline brings up the tabloids calling Kevin Federline a gold digger. She defends him: "He has children now... with me, that he wants to support and not just let it be all me. You know, he's a man." They married on September 18, 2004. She was pregnant with their second son during that interview. On November 7, 2006, less than five months later, she filed for divorce. The court gave him $20,000 a month in child support. In his book, he says he also got another $20,000 a month in alimony for half the length of the marriage. Reuters reported in 2007 that the settlement paid him close to $1.3 million on top of that. Then he asked for more. In 2018 his lawyers went back to court, and she agreed to pay nearly double, a source told ET. Her last payment went out in November 2024, after their younger son finished high school. His memoir came out in October 2025. He wrote that his lawyers told him to put the settlement "somewhere safe where it can grow," and that he figured he'd "make another million in no time." The case for Kevin: for years the boys lived mostly with him, and he says he didn't write the book for money. The case for Britney: she paid him for 17 years, and her representative says he and others are "profiting off" her. Was he a father raising two boys in LA, or a man who lived on her money for 17 years? — Jace (@JaceClipz) October 28, 2026

Those reduced payments continued until Jayden James graduated from high school. His graduation marked the stated end point for the child support arrangement and closed out the stream of money Federline had been receiving from Spears.

Federline addressed the size and use of those payments in his memoir, “You Thought You Knew.” He said the funds went toward security and maintaining the standard of living that Sean Preston and Jayden James had experienced with Spears.

According to Federline’s memoir, those expenses “easily ran well over $40,000 a month.” That figure was greater than the reduced monthly support amount and also surpassed the original $40,000 monthly payment he had initially received.

“The money was gone almost as soon as it came in,” he claimed in the book. His account described the child support as money quickly absorbed by the costs he associated with security and preserving that standard of living.

The lawsuit lays out separate repayment dates for each part of Federline’s debt. It claims he was given until August 2026 to pay the credit card debt, while the personal line of credit came due in June 2025.

The personal overdraft line carried an earlier deadline, according to the filing. That portion was due in April 2025, two months before the stated June deadline for the personal line of credit.

City National Bank is seeking more than the underlying balances listed in its claims. The bank also wants Federline to pay unpaid accrued interest, adding another costly element to the dispute involving the three accounts.

The filing lists interest of 20.5% on the credit card and 7.5% on the personal line of credit. It also seeks 18% on the overdraft line, making the bank’s demand extend beyond the total principal cited in the lawsuit.

Federline’s attorney did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment. No response from his legal representative was included alongside the details of City National Bank’s allegations.

Federline and Spears met in early 2004 before becoming engaged by July of that year. They married in California that September, only months after their first meeting.

Spears filed for divorce in November 2006, and the split was finalized in July 2007. Federline later moved on with Victoria Prince, whom he married in 2013.

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