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The petition is spare, its language direct. In the Family Court Division of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in St. Charles County, DENISE QUEEN has asked a judge to dissolve her marriage to MICHAEL QUEEN, stating that the union cannot be preserved.
Filed in February 2026, the action asserts that both parties have been residents of Missouri for more than ninety days immediately preceding the petition. The marriage, registered in Missouri, produced three children, all now emancipated. The petitioner affirms she is not pregnant and notes that the couple constructively separated on a date set out in the filing.
There is, the petition states plainly, no reasonable likelihood that the marriage can be preserved. It describes the relationship as irretrievably broken. Neither party is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States or its allies. During the course of the marriage, the couple accumulated marital property and also maintained separate property of their own.
In seeking relief, DENISE QUEEN asks the court to enter a judgment dissolving the marriage, to set apart her separate property, and to divide the marital property in an equitable manner. The petition further states that each party is able-bodied and capable of earning sufficient income to pay his or her respective attorney fees.
Petitions like this move quietly through Missouri’s courts, especially in the early months of a new year when filings often reflect shifts already underway. The language is formal, the requests measured. From here, the matter proceeds not by rhetoric but by rule—toward orders that define what remains shared and what does not, and toward a legal conclusion shaped by statute and record.
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