Inside Channing Tatum & Jenna Dewan’s Legal Battle

Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan are entangled in an ongoing legal battle more than six years after announcing their split.

The former couple is at odds over a financial settlement that includes profits from Tatum’s Magic Mike franchise, and they have both included each other on a “preliminary witness list” for a trial, according to documents obtained by PEOPLE. The key issues that will be addressed, per the documents, are division of property, reimbursement claims, support, breach of fiduciary duty and attorneys’ fees.

“Jenna is just looking for a fair resolution of community assets of the marriage, under California State Law,” a rep for the actress tells PEOPLE. “Jenna wants to reach a final determination and close this chapter on her life as soon as possible.”

The former couple has “been trying to settle for over five years and have gone to many settlement conferences during that time,” the rep adds.

Representatives for Tatum did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

But a source close to Tatum maintains to PEOPLE the reason the legal battle has “dragged on is because Jenna’s actions and claims continuously contradict themselves.”

The source adds, “She says she wants a fair settlement but is ignoring all post-separation work Channing and his partners have done to enhance Magic Mike. She keeps stalling negotiations, but says she wants to resolve this.”

In light of the filing, another insider tells PEOPLE that while Dewan, 43, has “clearly moved on, she’d like for all the doors to close and for her divorce to be finalized. She’s not dragging this on because she wants to or because she’s greedy,” the insider said.

The source close to Tatum says the actor, also 43, “just wants to move on and wants [Dewan] to move on with her new life as well.”

Dewan is currently engaged to Steve Kazee, and the insider notes that she wants everything between her and Tatum “settled before she gets married again,” despite the fact that both she and Tatum were declared legally single by a judge in November 2019.

Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan attend the European Premiere of “Magic Mike XXL” at Vue West End on June 30, 2015 in London, England.
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The biggest issue the former couple faces is how to divide profits from the intellectual property associated with Tatum’s trilogy of Magic Mike movies. Dewan claimed that the case has been delayed because Tatum allegedly refuses “to accept an equal division of the Magic Mike intellectual property,” per the docs.

Dewan argued in the documents that the 2012 film and its “extremely lucrative” offshoots — including two sequels in 2015 and 2023, a spin-off reality TV series and a popular live Magic Mike attraction in Las Vegas — were “developed and co-financed by Channing during marriage with community effort and marital funds.”

She also alleges that the actor did not tell her about Magic Mike business opportunities and “collected one hundred percent of the profits” after their separation without her knowledge. 

Tatum disputed her claim, and in documents filed by his attorney, he asserted that he “has expended extensive efforts since separation towards the enhancement of the Magic Mike intellectual property and related entities, which Respondent contends give rise to his separate property interest therein.”

Along with his ex-wife, he listed his business partners and filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, the director of the 2012 film, as witnesses on his list.

Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan Tatum attend the premiere of “War Dog: A Soldier’s Best Friend” at Directors Guild Of America on November 6, 2017.

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According to Dewan, the Magic Mike dispute is the first issue to resolve, and after that, the couple’s other issues can be settled. 

Tatum’s lawyers alleged that the actor has “exhausted all efforts in an attempt to settle this matter without litigation.”

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The former couple met on the set of Step Up in 2006 and were engaged two years later. In 2009, they got married in Malibu and welcomed their daughter, Everly, who is now 10, in 2013. They continue to co-parent together.

Following their split, Dewan began dating Kazee in 2018 and has been engaged to him since 2020. They are parents to four-year-old son Callum and are now expecting their second child together.

Tatum, meanwhile, is engaged to Zoë Kravitz, who he has been romantically linked to since 2021.

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