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The record does not linger on sentiment. It sets down a timeline, spare and direct, tracing the course of a marriage that began years earlier and has since stood apart in fact if not yet in law. In the Circuit Court of Saint Charles County, Ronni Steele moves to dissolve her marriage to Sergio Esteban-Alayo, describing a relationship she asserts cannot be restored.
The filing, sworn and subscribed on April 9, 2026, follows a separation that dates back to April 1, 2015. The petition places the parties in different states—one in Missouri, the other in New Jersey—while establishing that the statutory residency requirement has been met. The marriage itself began on June 5, 2011, in Union County, New Jersey, and is recorded there.
What the petition outlines next is less about history and more about disposition. It states that no property was accumulated during the marriage, and asks the court to leave each party with what they already hold. Specific requests are made for certain items and real property to remain with the petitioner, along with a request that any interest held by the respondent in that property be formally extinguished under Missouri procedure.
The document also addresses custody, setting forth a request that care, custody, and control be placed with the petitioner, supported by a parenting plan already submitted to the court. It further notes that neither party is in military service and asserts that the marriage is irretrievably broken, with no reasonable likelihood of repair.
In filings like this, the language narrows the scope of what the court must decide, reducing a long span of shared time into discrete questions of property, custody, and status. The process that follows will not revisit the past so much as assign its consequences, step by step, until the legal ties that remain are formally resolved.
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