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In the raw grit of Jackson County’s courthouse, where the air crackles with the wreckage of vows, Austin Marie Freed hit the scene on July 31, 2025, to torch her marriage to Joseph Edward Freed. Hitched on March 20, 2010, in Taney County’s fleeting fever, their fifteen-year run hit the skids by December 20, 2024, the marriage irretrievably broken, no chance to stitch it back. Kelly Keefe of Keefe Family Law, LLC, backs Austin’s play, gunning for a clean break.
No kids clutter their past, no pregnancy looms. Austin, employed and steady, and Joseph, able to fend for himself, don’t need each other’s cash—maintenance is off the table. Their years piled up property and debts, now laid bare for the court to slice up fair. Non-marital assets, stashed before their vows, gotta go back to their rightful owners. Each covers their own legal tab, unless Joseph drags it out, then Austin might demand he foot her bill.
The courtroom’s a pressure cooker, humming with the ghosts of what was. Austin’s demand is hard and fast: kill the marriage, divvy the loot, settle the debts. In Jackson County’s brutal glare, where love’s a dead-end street, the judge gotta weigh their long haul, cut the ties, and let Austin and Joseph walk, free and clear, into whatever’s next, the law’s blade hacking through their tangled mess.
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