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The holiday season has a way of insisting on cheer, whether it’s deserved or not. Lights blink, calendars thin, and people pretend that endings can wait until January. But December 5, 2025 did not wait. That was the day Marie E.H. Carneiro placed her name on a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, quietly stepping out of a story that had already concluded in all but ink.
Marie Carneiro and Felipe D. Carneiro, both retired, were married in a ceremony registered far from Missouri, in South Africa. Time carried them elsewhere, and irreconcilable differences did the rest. The petition states plainly that the marriage is irretrievably broken, with no reasonable likelihood of repair. Neither party is pregnant. Neither seeks maintenance from the other. There are no uniforms, no deployments, no dramatic absences—just the administrative clarity of a life reorganizing itself.
Represented by Zachary N. Hilty, Marie asks the court to dissolve the marriage and to either approve a marital property settlement should one be reached, or, failing that, to divide marital property and debts in a fair and equitable manner under Missouri law. Each party’s non-marital property and debts are to be set aside as separate. Marie does not request maintenance and asks the court to enter an order reflecting that neither spouse requires support. She further requests that each party bear their own attorney’s fees and costs, while reserving the right to seek fees should misconduct arise.
Somewhere nearby, a radio probably played a Christmas song. The petition did not mention it. It didn’t need to.
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