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The paperwork does not rage; it itemizes. In the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, under Cause No. 26SL-DR00456, Carter V. Wood has asked that his marriage to Wgan E. Wood be dissolved, asserting that both parties have satisfied Missouri’s residency requirement of more than ninety days preceding the filing. The petition, sworn before a notary and filed in February 2, 2026, states that the marriage, registered in Missouri, is beyond repair and “irretrievably broken,” with no reasonable likelihood of preservation.
Constructive separation is marked not by departure but by the act of filing itself. The document records that there are children born of the marriage and that, for the past five years, they have resided with both parties at the marital address. It further represents that neither party has participated in other proceedings concerning custody or visitation, and that the petitioner is unaware of any related actions—protective orders, terminations, or adoptions—that might affect the case. The respondent is not pregnant.
The filing emphasizes agreement rather than dispute. The parties, it says, have settled upon joint legal and joint physical custody, as well as financial support arrangements to be memorialized and submitted for the court’s approval. They have also agreed to divide marital property and indebtedness equitably, though the terms have not yet been reduced to writing. Each is in possession of non-marital property to be set aside individually, and both are described as capable of paying their own attorney fees and costs, absent conduct that would render such expenses unwarranted or unreasonable.
No maintenance is sought by either side. Neither party is a member of the Armed Forces. The petition concludes with a request that the court dissolve the marriage, approve the agreed parenting plan and support terms, apportion property and debts, and grant such further relief as deemed just and proper. In this early stretch of the year, when households often take stock of their arrangements, the filing stands as a procedural threshold: a formal acknowledgment that a private union has reached its terminus and that its unwinding will proceed, as the statute prescribes, toward judgment.
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