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Case number 2611-FC00218 sits at the top of the file in the Family Court of Charles County, where the marriage of Sonia B. Valter and Jason W. Dungan is now reduced to numbered paragraphs and formal requests for relief. The petition, verified before a notary on February 6, 2026, initiates the process of dissolving a marriage that began in late October 2021.
The filing states that Sonia B. Valter has been a Missouri resident for more than ninety days preceding the action and currently resides in St. Peters. Jason W. Dungan is likewise identified as a Missouri resident, living in Arnold. Both parties are over 18 years of age. They were married on October 29, 2021, with the marriage registered in St. Louis County. The petition records their separation as occurring on or about April 13, 2024.
No unemancipated children were born to the parties, and the petitioner states she is not pregnant. Neither party is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States or its allies. Each is described as being in possession of certain separate property, and each owns certain non-marital assets. The filing further acknowledges that the parties accumulated marital property and obligations during the marriage.
The petition asserts that the marriage is irretrievably broken and that there is no reasonable likelihood it can be preserved. It requests that the court dissolve the marriage, set aside each party’s non-marital assets, and either approve any marital settlement agreement entered into by the parties or, absent such an agreement, divide marital property and debts in a fair and equitable manner. Neither party seeks maintenance.
In early February, when court calendars begin to fill with the year’s first wave of filings, such pleadings mark a procedural turning point. The affidavit and verification transform private separation into a public record, and the matter moves from personal decision to judicial review. What follows will be measured not in rhetoric, but in orders entered and property allocated, closing a chapter that the court now formally acknowledges as concluded.
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