Comic Carl La Bove filed a petition
Thursday to try to invalidate a nearly 13-year-old agreement requiring him to
make payments for the girl, who is now 21 years old. As of 2009, La Bove owed
nearly $188,000 in back child support, according to a statement filed with his
petition. The debt has left La Bove without a driver's license, a passport and
shoddy credit, he said. But he said any animosity he felt toward Kinison for
sleeping with his now ex-wife during Kinison's hard-charging heyday in the late
1980s is gone.
"I learned to forgive him for his actions," La
Bove said outside a downtown Los Angeles courthouse Thursday. A comedian who
opened for Kinison for years and was with him when he died in a car accident in
California in 1992, La Bove is hoping that the release of child support
obligations will allow him to drive himself to gigs from now on.
