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The paperwork sketches the outline of a marriage that began across state lines and is now before a Missouri court. Lynda Lee Champ has asked the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, sitting in Independence, to dissolve her marriage to Jeffrey Dayle Champ. Court records show the petition for dissolution of marriage was filed March 2, 2026.
According to the filing, both Lynda Lee Champ and Jeffrey Dayle Champ have been residents of Jackson County for more than ninety days preceding the petition. The document states that the parties, both adults, were married May 5, 2018, in Yakima, Yakima County, Washington, where the marriage was registered.
The petition states the couple separated on or about February 26, 2026. It asserts that irreconcilable differences have resulted in an irretrievable breakdown of the marriage and that there is no reasonable likelihood the marriage can be preserved. The filing further indicates that neither party is on active duty with the Armed Forces of the United States or its allies and that no children were born of the marriage.
In the requests presented to the court, Lynda Lee Champ asks that marital property and debts be divided in a fair and equitable manner and that each party retain their respective non-marital property. She also seeks approval to change her name to Lynda Lee Siekawitch. The petition states that both parties are capable of supporting themselves and that each should pay their own court costs and attorney fees, though the filing reserves the right to seek reimbursement if litigation is unnecessarily prolonged.
With the petition now entered into the court’s docket, the case moves into the structured pace of civil proceedings, where filings, responses, and court review will determine the outcome. For many couples, such filings mark the administrative start of untangling shared obligations and formalizing the end of a marriage within the court’s process.
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