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What remains of a marriage is sometimes not memory but paperwork—addresses repeated, dates preserved, and the quiet insistence that a life once shared has reached its end. In Jackson County, Missouri, Mercedes LaShawn Parison placed those facts before the court with measured resolve, asking that her marriage to Dominique Clemmon Malone be formally dissolved. The petition for dissolution of marriage was filed on December 4, 2025, in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, at Kansas City.
The parties were married on February 14, 2018, in Kansas City, Missouri, a union that would prove brief in practice though enduring in form. By February 15, 2018, the parties had separated, no longer living as spouses. The petition states that the marriage is irretrievably broken, with no reasonable likelihood of preservation. No marital property or debts are alleged to require division by the court.
Two minor children were born of the marriage and have remained in the custody of the petitioner for the requisite statutory period preceding the filing. A proposed parenting plan accompanies the petition, through which the petitioner seeks sole legal and physical custody, with supervised visitation for the respondent as outlined in the plan. The petitioner also asks that a prior child support matter be merged into this case, ensuring continuity rather than duplication of proceedings.
Filed through Attorney Daniel C. Hall of Daniel & Hall, the petition further requests that each party retain their respective personal property, that the dissolution be entered by affidavit pursuant to local rule without formal hearing, and that the court grant such additional relief as it deems just and proper. In these requests, the filing does not dramatize loss but documents finality—carefully, deliberately, and without ornament.
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