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The quiet corridors of St. Louis City’s Family Court Division received another case file on April 23, 2025—but what lay within was not a standard dissolution. Filed by Petitioner Vickie M. Oche David, the request wasn’t for divorce. It was for annulment, a legal declaration that her marriage to Emmanuel Oche David, solemnized on December 11, 2015, never should have existed in the eyes of the law.
The petition, signed and submitted through her attorney Rand Elio Scopel of The Scopel Law Firm, L.L.C., is stark and direct in its accusations. Vickie asserts that Emmanuel deceived her from the outset by failing to disclose that he was already married at the time of their union. She calls this not a misunderstanding or clerical error, but fraud—a deliberate misrepresentation that invalidated their nearly ten-year-long marriage.
The parties have lived apart since June 15, 2024, and, according to the filing, they share no children, no joint property, and no joint debts. Vickie also makes clear she is not pregnant and neither party serves in the U.S. Armed Forces. Her final request: that the court restore her maiden name—Vickie Michelle Davis—signaling not only a legal reset but a symbolic break from what she characterizes as a marriage founded on falsehood.
The petition seeks not to sever a bond, but to erase it—an attempt to rewrite a personal history that, in the petitioner’s view, was authored under deception.
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