NAMES IN THE NEWS : Cooke Child Support: $29,000

A judge has ordered Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke to pay his former wife $29,000 a year to support the couple’s 2-year-old daughter, far less than the $110,000 she had requested.

“It means I’m going to appeal,” a tearful Suzanne Martin Cooke told the Washington Post in an interview Thursday from her home in Fauquier County, Va. “It means I’ll have to move to D.C. . . . It means I’ve got to go to work.”

The legal battle began shortly after the two were married in July, 1987, when Cooke discovered that his pregnant wife had not had the abortion she’d promised, according to court testimony. He locked her out of his estate in affluent Middleburg, Va., in August and filed for divorce in October.

Cooke, 77, has never seen his daughter Jacqueline, born Jan. 25, 1988, although he acknowledged paternity last spring after court-ordered blood tests. The Redskins owner refused to add child support to his alimony payment of $6,000 a month through 1993 until the amount was set by the court.

Suzanne Cooke had asked for $11,640 a month to cover Jacqueline’s schooling, clothes, vacations, a nanny, riding lessons and purchase of a $650,000 farm. Instead, she will receive $2,420 a month.