A request for $6,189 a month in spousal support, plus $35,000 toward attorney’s fees and costs, is at the center of court documents TMZ reported on Nov. 8 in the divorce of 90 Day Fiancé stars Shekinah Garner and Sarper Guven. Garner is asking a judge to order the payments from her estranged husband, and she points to his comedy career as the reason the numbers make sense.
The filing says a joint federal tax return shows Guven’s comedy business grossed more than $280,000, while her own esthetics business lost money. No ruling has been made, and none of the reports include a response from Guven to the new requests. Everything below comes from Garner’s side of the paperwork as reported by the outlets.
The Two Dollar Amounts Garner Is Asking For
The monthly figure is $6,189 in spousal support, and the second request is $35,000 to help cover her attorney’s fees and costs, according to TMZ’s account of the documents. Both are requests, not orders, and a judge would decide whether to grant any of it. Reality-TV divorces tend to play out in public, as in the Love Is Blind divorce filing covered on this site, but the dollar amounts here come straight from a court record.
Garner’s September petition had already asked for spousal support without naming an amount, Yahoo’s recap of the TMZ report noted. That petition also said the couple has no minor children and that marital property and debts still need to be sorted out. Money questions after a split are rarely simple, and a frenzhub list of common life choices that backfire shows how often big decisions come with a bill.
Two Years of Trips to Turkey
Garner says the money argument starts with the long-distance years. She told the court she put her esthetician business on hold to back Guven’s comedy work, and that she flew to Turkey about every two months for roughly three weeks at a time over two years, until his U.S. visa came through.
Each trip meant closing her Los Angeles-area facial studio, she says, and the trips were costly. The Complex summary repeats the claim that the studio sat closed while she was overseas and that her finances took the hit. Putting a career on pause for a partner’s goals is a familiar story, one that turns up often in frenzhub’s roundup of common adult regrets.
The couple’s timeline, as laid out by Yahoo, began on Garner’s 2022 trip to Turkey, where Guven was working as a model and personal trainer. They appeared on 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way in 2023, he moved to Los Angeles on a K-1 visa in late 2024, and they married on Nov. 11, 2024. Another reality star’s split, Jen Affleck’s divorce filing, landed in the same news cycle.
The Tax Return Line That Anchors the Request
The figures that give the request its edge come from the couple’s joint federal return. Garner says it shows Guven’s comedy business grossed more than $280,000, with about $180,000 of that as net profit. Her own business, by the same return, reported a net loss of about $51,000. A guide to balancing work and life on frenzhub covers the kind of tradeoffs a couple faces when one career grows while the other shrinks.
These numbers are her description of the return in a filing, so they reflect one side of a dispute that has not been tested in court. A joint tax return often becomes the main exhibit once money is contested, a pattern explored in a look at everyday habits that wear down a marriage.
A Breakup That Played Out Online First
The legal filing followed a very public September. Garner filed for divorce on Sept. 28, citing irreconcilable differences and listing Sept. 22 as the separation date, per Yahoo. Complex gives Sept. 29 in its summary box, so the exact filing day differs slightly between outlets. Oversharing a split online is part of what frenzhub’s list of social norms worth abandoning argues is overdue for a rethink.
On Sept. 22, both spouses posted statements. Garner wrote that she could not imagine taking a marriage she saw as sacred and turning it into the punchline of a comedy routine, and that she had attended his performances even after arguments. She also said in a social media post that she stayed faithful despite hearing he was on dating apps. Fights like these are the subject of a guide to things never said to a spouse during a fight.
Guven answered in his own post that both had tried to make the relationship work and that he did not want their four years together to become an online fight. He wrote that he never chose fame or money over her, and he dates the separation to early 2026, at least eight months before the filing, according to Yahoo’s summary.
Garner told TMZ the divorce was not a decision made lightly or without heartbreak, and that she had reached a point of no return.
What Happens Next in the Case
For now the case is at the request stage. A judge has not ruled on the $6,189 monthly figure or the $35,000 in fees, and Guven has not publicly answered the specific claims about the tax return or the travel. Property and debt division are still open, per the petition described by Yahoo.
The next steps would be a response from Guven’s side and a court date, neither of which has been reported yet. Updates are expected through court records and the same outlets that surfaced the first filing, TMZ among them.
Until a judge weighs in, the numbers remain what they were on Nov. 8: one spouse’s request, backed by one tax return, in a divorce that is still very much open.
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