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The separation is dated with specificity—January 30, 2026—a point the filing treats not as a moment of drama, but as a line after which the marriage no longer functioned as it once had. From there, the petition moves methodically, laying out the structure of a relationship that began on July 17, 1993, in Jackson County, Missouri, and now arrives in court as a matter for formal resolution.
Filed in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, at Independence, the petition from David C. Harris was sworn and submitted in April 2026, with the court record reflecting the filing date of April 7, 2026. The document establishes residency requirements for both David C. Harris and Gina T. Harris and confirms that neither party is on active military duty. It also states that there are no unemancipated children connected to the marriage and that the respondent is not pregnant.
At the center of the filing is a claim recognized in Missouri law: that the marriage is irretrievably broken, with no reasonable likelihood of preservation. The petition frames both parties as capable of supporting themselves and requests that neither be awarded maintenance. It further asks that each party be responsible for their own legal costs, while reserving the possibility of revisiting that issue if the course of litigation changes.
Property and financial matters are presented in practical terms. The petition notes the existence of marital property and obligations and calls for either approval of a mutual settlement agreement or, absent that, a fair and equitable division by the court. Non-marital assets, it states, should remain with the party who owns them, and any related attorney’s liens are to be addressed within the same proceeding.
What unfolds from here is a process defined less by a single filing than by the steps that follow—responses, potential agreements, and judicial determinations. The petition marks an entry point into that system, where the details of a long marriage are distilled into claims and requests, and where resolution, if it comes, will be shaped by both the record and the passage of time.
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