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There is a record now in the Circuit Court of St. Charles County bearing cause number 2611-FC00250, in which Kara Rose Joslin asks the State of Missouri to dissolve her marriage to Luke Preston Joslin. The petition, verified and sworn before a notary on February 17, 2026, places before the court a union that began scarcely more than a year earlier.
The pleading states that both parties reside at the same address on Ramona Lane in Saint Charles and that each has been a resident of Missouri for more than ninety days preceding the filing. They were married on December 7, 2024, with the marriage registered in Madison County, Illinois. Though they have not physically separated, the petition describes them as constructively separated as of the date of filing.
No children were born of the marriage, and the petitioner affirms she is not pregnant. The document declares that there is no reasonable likelihood the marriage can be preserved and that it is irretrievably broken. It further recites that the parties possess marital property and debts, along with separate property, and that no arrangements have been made regarding maintenance. Neither party is on active duty with the Armed Forces.
Among the relief sought is the restoration of the petitioner’s maiden name, Kara Rose Ostermeier, along with an equitable division of marital property and debt. Filed in mid-February, when the year is still new and its official ledgers are only beginning to fill, the petition advances into the measured sequence of summons, response, and decree—an ordered progression by which the court acknowledges that even brief marriages, once formalized, require formal conclusion.
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