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In a quiet courtroom above the noise and drift of Kansas City, where the air carries the scent of autumn and endings, Ashley Patzer set forth her petition to dissolve her marriage to Ryan Reynolds. Filed on October 23, 2025, in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, the document moves with the unhurried certainty of something already decided—a final punctuation to vows once spoken beneath the crisp mountain air of Vail, Colorado, where the two were married on February 22, 2024.
Represented by Desiree Duke of Hale Robinson & Robinson, LLC, Ashley, self-employed and steadfast, described her marriage as irretrievably broken. The couple separated in mid-September 2025, a brief nineteen months after their wedding. No children were born of the union, and the petition bears no trace of lingering conflict, only the cool insistence that the marriage cannot be preserved.
Ashley asks that each party retain their own non-marital property, that any settlement be judged fair and not unconscionable, and that the court divide their marital estate equitably. She seeks spousal maintenance and payment of her attorney’s fees, citing the differences in income and the standard of living established during their time together.
There is a restrained melancholy in her filing—one that speaks of lives once interwoven now gently separating into their own quiet rhythms. What began as promise among the peaks has returned, as many stories do, to paper and the solemn order of law.
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