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There are stories of fracture that unfold not in a single moment of rupture but in the slow drift of ordinary days. On June 2, 2025, Jaclyn Pollnow stepped into the legal machinery of the St. Louis County Circuit Court, petitioning for the dissolution of her marriage to David Pollnow. Represented by Robert Parson, Jr. of Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal, Jaclyn’s petition details a marriage that began with promise on January 25, 2014, and began to unravel in earnest by March 1, 2025.
There is one child—nine years old—whose life, the document implies, remains the emotional epicenter. The petition asks the court to grant joint legal and physical custody, a shared authority over the child’s upbringing, despite the collapsing structure of the marriage.
No separation agreement exists. The division of property and debt, the request for child support retroactive to the date of service, and Jaclyn’s plea for attorney’s fees—all speak to a relationship strained not only by emotion but also by imbalance in financial standing. David, the filing states, is employed and able-bodied. Jaclyn, by contrast, claims insufficient resources to sustain both the legal battle and her child’s needs without assistance.
This is not a tale of spectacle. It’s the quieter kind of unraveling—a story of middle-class disillusionment, domestic logistics, and contested futures. And yet, like all such filings, it echoes the intimate politics of love, equity, and responsibility now left to the court to untangle.
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