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Case number 2622-FC00200 now stands in the docket of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, where Gregory J. Roorda has petitioned to dissolve his marriage to Heather Roorda. The filing, dated February 10, 2026, initiates proceedings under Missouri law and requests service by special process server.
The petition states that both parties have been residents of Missouri for more than ninety days preceding the commencement of the action. Each is associated with the same St. Louis address. They were married on April 15, 2005, in a ceremony registered in Hamilton County, Iowa. Although they continue to reside under the same roof, the document asserts that they discontinued living as husband and wife in September 2025.
No children were born of the marriage, and the respondent is not pregnant. Neither party is on active duty with the armed forces of the United States. The petition declares the marriage irretrievably broken, with no reasonable likelihood of preservation. It further notes that the parties acquired property and debts during the marriage but have not executed a property settlement agreement. There was no prenuptial agreement. Each party is described as capable of meeting his or her own reasonable needs, and neither seeks maintenance. Both are said to be able to pay their own attorney fees and court costs.
The petitioner asks the court to dissolve the marriage, divide marital property and debts in a fair and equitable manner, and set aside separate property to each party. No award of maintenance or attorney fees is requested. The formal language of the pleading, verified under oath, frames the end of a marriage that began more than two decades ago and now moves into the procedural channel prescribed by statute.
Filed in the early weeks of the year, the case reflects the deliberate pace of civil adjudication: residency established, grounds asserted, relief specified. The court’s task will be to convert those assertions into orders—dividing assets, confirming separate property, and entering judgment—so that the record, rather than the household, marks the conclusion.
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