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On August 27, 2025, in Jackson County, Missouri, Marc D. Conrad placed before the court a petition that carried the weight of twenty-four years of shared history. With his attorney, Troy J. Leavitt of Troy J. Leavitt Law Firm, LLC, Marc asked that the marriage he entered into with Mary V. Conrad on September 8, 2001, in Independence, Missouri, be dissolved.
The petition spoke in the solemn cadence of finality: there is no reasonable likelihood this union can be preserved, no thread left to weave back into a whole. The parting, it declared, began long before the filing date. In July 2022, the Conrads separated. What followed was absence, silence, the slow recognition of irretrievable breakdown.
There are no children to draw them back into orbit, no pregnancy to carry hope forward. Both are capable of standing alone, of earning and sustaining themselves without the need for maintenance from the other. The petition asked the court to recognize that, to allow each to bear their own costs, unless one sought to prolong pain unnecessarily.
The matter of property and debts rests at the center of the request: accumulated things, obligations, and memories now needing to be divided with fairness, or placed into agreement if settlement can be reached. Marc prayed the court would honor equity—what is hers, what is his, what must be split.
The petition closed not with bitterness, but with a clean ask: dissolve the bonds, divide the life built together, and allow each to move forward unbound.
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