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Case number 2611-FC00215 now stands on the docket of the Circuit Court of St. Charles County, where Stephne Piper White has petitioned for dissolution of marriage from Joyce Lynn Monahan. The filing was sworn before a notary in February 2026, formally initiating proceedings in St. Charles County.
The petition states that the petitioner has resided in St. Clair County, Illinois, for approximately one year preceding the filing. The respondent has resided in St. Charles County, Missouri, for approximately one year preceding the filing. The parties were married May 23, 2015, in Clark County, Nevada, where the marriage is registered. They physically separated in November 2024.
No children were born of the marriage, and the petitioner states that, to the best of her knowledge and belief, the respondent is not pregnant. Neither party is an active-duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States. The petition acknowledges that the parties have not reached agreements regarding maintenance or the division of assets, while also asserting that neither party is in need of maintenance because both can support themselves.
The filing identifies the existence of marital and separate property, as well as certain marital debts. It requests that the court divide marital property and debts in a fair and equitable manner, set aside each party’s separate property, and order that neither party receive maintenance or contribute to the other’s attorney’s fees. The petition further states that both parties are capable of paying the necessary costs of the action.
February often brings a series of recalibrations to the court’s docket, as the year’s first filings take shape. This petition, grounded in statutory language and verified under oath, begins a process that will move from assertion to adjudication. The court will examine property, debts, and the formal requirements of dissolution, and in due course, render a judgment that closes the record on a marriage entered in 2015 and now declared irretrievably broken.
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