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December presses people into decisions. The calendar narrows, obligations accumulate, and the promise of renewal—wrapped in lights and ritual—forces a reckoning with what no longer works. Against that seasonal pressure, Michael Bradford filed a petition for dissolution of marriage in St. Louis County on December 8, 2025, seeking a formal end to his marriage to Selene Orozco just as the year’s final weeks began to close.
The filing frames the marriage not as a sudden failure but as an outcome shaped by irreconcilable differences and a constructive separation that had already placed distance where partnership once stood. The petition states plainly that the marriage is irretrievably broken and that there is no reasonable likelihood it can be preserved. There are no minor children born of the marriage, a fact that simplifies the legal architecture even as it sharpens the finality of the decision.
Michael asks the court to dissolve the marriage, to set apart his non-marital property, and to equitably divide the marital assets and debts accumulated during the union in accordance with Missouri law. He requests that neither party be awarded maintenance, asserting that Selene is able to support herself and has sufficient property to meet her reasonable needs. The petition further seeks an order that neither party receive attorney’s fees, that Selene be required to pay the costs of the proceeding, and that the court grant such other relief as it deems just and proper.
Michael is represented by attorney David J. Howard. The filing reads with a kind of procedural calm, almost austere, as if mirroring the season itself: a winter document that clears space, not for celebration, but for whatever comes after—when the holidays pass and the year turns, leaving resolution where uncertainty once lived.
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