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The paperwork arrives as the year exhales, when offices thin out and optimism is usually postponed until January. Filed on December 30, 2025, in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, Alexandra Lamb’s petition for dissolution of marriage treats the end of the calendar not as a celebration but as a deadline—a moment to inventory what has not worked and to insist, plainly, on structural change.

Lamb and Justin Lamb were married on May 30, 2023, in Austin, Texas, a relatively brief union that fractured by November 2024. The petition does not dramatize the split; instead, it catalogs the consequences. The marriage, Lamb asserts, is irretrievably broken, with no reasonable likelihood of repair. One child was born during the marriage, and the filing asks the court to step in where private arrangements have failed, determining legal and physical custody according to the child’s best interests and setting child support under Missouri Supreme Court guidelines.

Represented by attorney Dan Haltenhof of Haltenhof Law Group, LC, Lamb seeks a series of practical remedies that reflect the realities of modern family life. She asks the court to equitably divide marital property and debts, to set aside each party’s separate property, and to formally bar maintenance, noting that both parties are capable of meeting their own reasonable needs. The petition also requests that Lamb be awarded her reasonable attorney fees and costs, a reminder that access to resolution itself carries a price.

End-of-year filings often resemble quiet confessions, submitted while the rest of the world is busy closing tabs and opening champagne. January divorces can pretend to be about fresh starts. This one does neither. Instead, it reads as a balance sheet—filed before the year turns—insisting that unfinished business be counted honestly before anything new is allowed to begin.

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