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The marriage of AUSTIN HOFFMAN and JORDAN HOFFMAN now stands before the Circuit Court of St. Charles County, reduced to numbered paragraphs and formal requests for relief. The petition, filed February 9, 2026, asks the court to dissolve a union that began on October 5, 2024, and was registered in Warren County, Missouri.
Both parties, the filing states, have been residents of Missouri for at least ninety days preceding the petition and currently reside in St. Charles County. They are described as constructively separated as of the filing. The document asserts that there is no reasonable likelihood the marriage can be preserved and that it is irretrievably broken. Neither party is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States or its allies.
The petition addresses financial circumstances in direct terms. It states that the petitioner has insufficient funds to support the minor child without assistance from the respondent, while the respondent is described as able-bodied, earning a substantial wage, and having sufficient funds to provide support. The petitioner further asserts that he does not earn enough income to support himself or pay attorney’s fees and litigation costs without contribution, while the respondent is said to have sufficient income to cover her own fees and expenses. The filing also notes that the respondent is pregnant at the time of the action.
In addition to seeking dissolution, the petitioner requests joint legal and joint physical custody pursuant to a court-ordered parenting plan, an order for child support under Missouri guidelines, the division of marital property and debts, and the setting apart of separate property. In early February, as courts register the administrative consequences of private decisions, such filings enter a system designed to impose structure where agreement has faltered. The process that follows will not revisit the past; it will instead assign responsibilities and formalize an ending within the framework of statute.
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