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January is often treated as a psychological reset—a belief that the calendar alone can steady a life that has grown unrecognizable. But sometimes the act of beginning is quieter, more procedural, and less forgiving. In St. Louis County, Missouri, that reckoning arrived on January 16, 2026, when Krista D. Loaiza filed a petition for dissolution of marriage, placing the private mechanics of a family into public record.
Krista and Michael H. Loaiza were married on January 2, 2013, a date that once marked a beginning of its own. Over the next decade, their lives stretched across states and addresses, raising four children now ranging in age from three to ten. The family’s recent history settled in St. Louis County after years that included time in Grand Island, New York—a pattern of movement that suggests effort, adjustment, and continuity, even as the marriage itself began to fracture. The parties separated in mid-November 2025, and the petition asserts that the marriage is irretrievably broken, with no reasonable likelihood of repair.
Filed through attorney Alexandra C. Kohlfeld of Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal, the petition asks the court to dissolve the marriage and to award joint legal and joint physical custody of the minor children to both parents. It further requests that each party’s separate property be set aside individually, and that marital property and marital debts be divided in a manner the court finds appropriate. No arrangements had been made between the parties regarding custody, support, or maintenance prior to the filing.
The petition closes by seeking any additional relief the court deems just and proper. In a month associated with optimism and resolve, the filing reflects something more restrained: an acknowledgment that continuation, too, requires choice.
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