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In the family courts of St. Charles County, Missouri, the marriage of Matthew P. Winters and Katherine Winters has come to rest at the gates of dissolution. On September 19, 2025, Matthew Winters, represented by attorney Alan P. Walters of St. Charles, placed before the court his petition declaring the union irretrievably broken. The two were married on December 5, 2016, a bond that stretched across nearly nine years before unraveling in the autumn of this year. Their separation took form on or about September 9, 2025, marking a quiet departure from shared life.
From their marriage came three children, who remain at the center of Matthew’s filing. He asks the court to honor a proposed parenting plan that grants both parents joint legal and joint physical custody, a gesture toward shared responsibility and presence in the children’s lives. His petition underscores the belief that such an arrangement would best serve their welfare and stability.
The documents also reveal that no party is pregnant, neither is a member of the armed forces, and no concurrent custody proceedings exist. Alongside custody, Matthew requests an equitable division of marital property and debts while ensuring that each party retains their separate property.
Thus, through the measured language of the petition, a life together is folded into the formal channels of the law, leaving the court to decide the shape of two futures once bound as one.
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