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In the unyielding machinery of Jackson County, Missouri, a woman’s resolve pierced the silence. On February 24, 2025, as Valentine’s month dwindled into a hollow whisper, Lindsay R. Haight filed for divorce from Darren E. Haight in the Circuit Court at Independence, shattering a decade-long bond cemented on September 12, 2015, in Lee’s Summit. With Christine Pina Rosengreen of Joseph, Hollander & Craft, L.L.C. as her counsel, Lindsay’s petition exposed a marriage teetering on collapse—irretrievably broken, though the couple had yet to part physically, their intent clear.
Two children, born of this union, stood as silent witnesses to the unraveling, their names locked away in the document’s guarded prose. Lindsay, employed and rooted in Missouri for over ninety days, sought joint legal and physical custody, her address their anchor for school and mail. Darren, likewise a long-term resident, faced her demand for child support and health coverage—needs unmet by their minors’ own means. Property, both personal and shared, and debts loomed for equitable division, while Lindsay spurned maintenance for either side, each to bear their own legal costs unless Darren dragged the fight.
This was no mere legal formality—it was a cry against the slow suffocation of a partnership, filed in defiance of February’s romantic gloss, a mother’s stand for fairness and her children’s future in a world that rarely listens.
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