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Shannen Doherty’s ex-husband Kurt Iswarienko is challenging his and the late actress’ divorce settlement.
Iswarienko’s attorney filed legal documents, which PEOPLE obtained, in Los Angeles Superior Court on Jan. 14, nearly two months after her estate said he has failed to fulfill several “monetary obligations” and provisions of the settlement.
In the documents, Iswarienko, 51, alleged that the divorce settlement — which was signed by Doherty on July 12, 2024, and Iswarienko on the following day, and was finalized just before Doherty’s July 13 death that year — was brought in the wrong court. Because of this, he claimed the court has no jurisdiction to enforce the terms of the agreement.
He further argued that the divorce case should have been put to an end when Doherty died after a years-long battle with cancer and that the settlement shouldn’t have even been filed, per the legal documents.
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This comes after Doherty’s attorneys and Christopher Cortazzo, trustee of the Shannen Doherty Family Trust, claimed in a filing on Nov. 24 that Iswarienko still owes money as part of the divorce settlement.
This included a provision for Iswarienko to sell Doherty’s $1.5 million Texas home and “equally divide the net proceeds with [her] estate.” However, the filing stated that Iswarienko “has refused to list” the Dripping Springs home “for sale.”
The filing also claimed that Iswarienko, a photographer, was to buy out Doherty’s share of a Mooney M-20 airplane for $100,000 and pay that sum to her estate within five business days of the sale. However, he allegedly “unilaterally withheld $50,274” from Doherty’s estate after making the sale in August 2024, and has yet to pay the sum.
In addition to the monetary provisions, Doherty’s attorneys noted that Iswarienko has also “refused to return [Doherty’s] items of personal property,” including photographs of her, which was another provision of the divorce settlement.
Iswarienko contended in his Jan. 14 filing that Cortazzo “failed to show he has authority under the trust” to have even introduced the motion in the first place.
Doherty filed for divorce from Iswarienko in 2023 after 11 years of marriage. Doherty’s rep, Leslie Sloane, told PEOPLE in a statement at the time: “Divorce is the last thing Shannen wanted. Unfortunately, she felt she was left with no other option.”
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The actress later claimed in an interview with PEOPLE in December 2023 that she had found out that the photographer had cheated on her during their relationship, just before going in for brain surgery to remove a brain tumor.
“I went in after I found out that my marriage was essentially over, that my husband had been carrying on an affair for two years,” she shared on her podcast in 2023. “At the end of the day, I just felt so incredibly unloved by someone I was with for 14 years, by someone I loved with all my heart.”
