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Rolf Richard Stangel initiated proceedings for the dissolution of his marriage to Barbara Leigh Stangel in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, with the petition formally filed on February 23, 2026. The couple was married on April 1, 2019, in Carroll County, Arkansas, and last separated in August 2025. The filing notes that no children were born or adopted during the marriage, and that the respondent is not currently pregnant.
The petition outlines the accumulation of marital property and debts over the course of the marriage, and requests that any property settlement agreement reached between the parties be approved by the court as fair and equitable. In the absence of such an agreement, the petitioner asks the court to divide the assets and debts in a manner deemed just. Each party also retains certain non-marital property, which the petitioner requests be assigned to its respective owner.
Both parties are retired, self-supporting, and capable of managing their own affairs, including their legal expenses. Neither seeks maintenance from the other. The petition emphasizes that the marriage is irretrievably broken and that no reasonable likelihood exists for its preservation.
The filing concludes with a request for the court to dissolve the marriage, approve any settlement agreement or equitably divide marital property and debts, assign non-marital assets appropriately, and confirm that each party bears responsibility for their own legal fees. It is a procedural measure that reflects the formal mechanisms by which personal relationships are concluded within the framework of state law.
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