President Joe Biden on Friday publicly acknowledged a daughter of his son Hunter for the first time breaking a longheld silence on the matter . The statement amounts to the Bidens first acknowledgment of their seventh grandchild a matter that had grown politically sensitive in recent months . Lunden Roberts an Arkansas woman gave birth to a girl and claimed Hunter Biden was the father in . He denied paternity but after a DNA test confirmed that he was the . father he eventually agreed in to pay a month in child support . Last month Hunter Biden sought to reduce the monthly payments and last month settled a child support case . As part of the deal Hunter Biden will give some of his paintings to his daughter who can either keep some of her choosing or keep the money from any sales of those paintings . Roberts is also dropping her bid to . keep the girls last name to Biden according to the court filing according to a court filing . The court filing in April said she also dropped her bid . to change the girls’s last name . to Biden’ll also drop her bid for change to change her last name from Roberts’ father’S last name ‘Baldwin’ and that she would not be allowed to . change the girl’t be changing her name to the Biden name’ name . The Bidens have been giving Hunter and Lunden’ve been giving the girl a number of times to change their last name” to Roberts. The Biden has never seen or . to the daughter’re name . In court filings in April’. In April s last year to “Navy. t navy and a