Key Takeaways:

• Dreka Gates is requesting over $73K per thirty days from Kevin Gates in mixed little one and spousal help.
• She claims Kevin stopped paying key bills, together with faculty tuition and property taxes.
• Kevin Gates now argues they have been by no means legally married, which Dreka calls “factually baseless.”

A household dispute means Kevin Gates could should crack open his pockets for a hefty sum. The Baton Rouge rapper’s estranged spouse, Dreka Gates, is looking for little one and spousal help.

After practically a decade of marriage, Dreka Gates filed for divorce in late July 2025. Their separation date was listed as July 10 and “irreconcilable differences” was cited as the explanation she was looking for the cut up.

At the time, she was requesting spousal help and little one help for his or her two kids, 12-year-old Islah Koren and 11-year-old Khaza Gates. Dreka was additionally asking for joint authorized and bodily custody.

On Thursday (Oct. 23), TMZ reported that Dreka is asking a decide to order Kevin Gates to pay $27,193 a month in little one help and $46,274 a month in spousal help. Dreka claims that in 2021, the Islah rapper started to “dismantle the financial foundation of their family.” She says he stopped paying needed payments like their youngsters’ personal faculty tuition and property taxes. Reportedly, the IRS positioned a lien on their Mississippi farm, which is now in foreclosures, for $7 million in unpaid taxes.

During happier instances, apart from managing their household, Dreka additionally managed Kevin Gates since early in his profession. The former flames wed in October 2015. However, per the docs, Kevin Gates is now claiming they have been by no means legally married, which she calls a “factually baseless place.”

The couple did have their justifiable share of confirmed (and unconfirmed) drama, although. In a June 2025 interview with Bootleg Kev, Brittany Renner claimed she and Kevin Gates have been married on April 6 and divorced by May 28. This clearly was earlier than Dreka filed for divorce.

In May 2025, Dreka adamantly refuted rumors that she was dishonest on Kevin with a private coach. “I have NEVER had any type of sexual or romantic encounters with my personal trainer or any ‘hired help’ and will NEVER,” she stated on-line.

Kevin Gates has but to touch upon any of the aforementioned issues.