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December carries its own moral weight—the insistence on closure, the quiet accounting that comes as the year nears its end. In Jackson County, Missouri, that reckoning arrived for Vianey A. Valencia when she filed a petition for dissolution of marriage on December 5, 2025, just as the season turned toward lights, reunions, and promises of renewal. The calendar edged toward Christmas; the petition marked a different kind of threshold.
Valencia and Se Chun Pak were married on September 30, 2020, in Gladstone, Missouri, a union registered in Clay County and later shaped by the responsibilities of parenthood. By late September 2025, the parties had separated, and the petition asserts that irreconcilable differences rendered the marriage irretrievably broken, with no reasonable likelihood of preservation. Missouri, the filing notes, is the home state of their minor child, who has resided with the petitioner.
Through her counsel, Mandee Rowen Pingel of Pingel Family Law, LLC, Valencia asks the court to dissolve the marriage and to address the practical consequences that follow. She seeks approval of a parenting plan and requests sole legal and sole physical custody, with her residence designated for educational and mailing purposes. The petition further asks that child support be calculated under Missouri Supreme Court Rule 88.01 and paid through wage assignment via the Missouri Family Support Payment Center.
Beyond custody and support, Valencia asks the court to equitably divide marital property and debts, set aside each party’s non-marital property and obligations, and allocate marital liabilities as justice requires. She also requests maintenance, attorney’s fees, and costs, asserting her inability to meet those needs independently, while asking the court to find that Pak is capable of doing so. The petition closes by seeking any further relief the court deems just and proper.
As December leans toward celebration, the filing stands as a reminder that endings, too, demand their season.
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