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January, a month often reserved for vows to begin again, became instead a quiet threshold of ending for Cali Schelling Page and Daniel Johnson Page. As the new year unfolded, Cali turned to the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, Family Court Division in Kansas City, filing a petition for dissolution of marriage on January 13, 2026—a moment that framed the close of one chapter against the hopeful symbolism of the calendar’s first page.
The petition recounts a marriage entered into in adulthood, now weighed down by separation and the acknowledgment that it can no longer be preserved. Cali, a Missouri resident of more than ninety days, and Daniel, residing in Kansas, are both employed, self-supporting, and neither seeks maintenance from the other. No children were born of the marriage, and Cali affirms she is not pregnant. What remains, according to the filing, is not possibility but finality: the marriage is described as irretrievably broken.
Within the petition, Cali asks the court to formally recognize that breakdown and to dissolve the marriage accordingly. She further requests an equitable division of marital property and debts, whether through approval of any separation agreement as unconscionable or, absent such an agreement, by the court’s own fair allocation. Another deeply personal request threads through the legal language—the restoration of her maiden name, Cali Marie Schelling, signaling a return to an earlier identity as the year resets.
Filed without legal counsel, the petition closes by asking the court for any further orders deemed just and proper. In a season defined by resolutions, this filing marks a deliberate, measured step toward resolution of a different kind—one shaped not by beginnings, but by the clarity of an ending.
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