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The petition is spare and methodical, its claims set out in numbered paragraphs that move from residence to marriage to separation. Filed February 5, 2026, in the Circuit Court of Jackson County at Kansas City, the action seeks to dissolve the marriage of Walter David Disney and Lori Lynn Disney.
Both parties, the filing states, have been residents of Missouri for at least ninety days preceding the petition. They were married December 29, 2004, in Overland Park, Kansas, with the marriage registered in Johnson County, Kansas. The couple separated on or about November 22, 2025. Each is over eighteen years of age, and neither is on active duty with the armed forces of the United States.
The petition asserts that the marriage is irretrievably broken and cannot be preserved. No unemancipated minor children were born of the marriage. The parties accumulated property and debts during their years together but have not entered into a property settlement agreement. Walter David Disney asks the court to divide marital assets and liabilities in a fair and equitable manner and to set aside separate property to its respective owner.
He further requests that neither party be ordered to pay maintenance and that each pay his or her own attorney’s fees, reserving the right to seek fees if the litigation is prolonged. The filing also asks that Lori Lynn Disney’s name be restored to Lori Lynn Sarmiento.
In early February, when domestic dockets absorb the residual decisions of the prior year, such petitions convert private estrangement into formal procedure. The court’s role is not to revisit the history of the marriage but to allocate responsibility and property according to statute. What remains after the decree will be a set of defined obligations, replacing a shared legal identity with two separate ones recognized by law.
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