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In the Circuit Court of St. Louis City, a petition bearing the number 2622-FC00220 sets out the terms of a marriage now presented for dissolution. Gregory Garner is named as petitioner; Karen D. Boyd Garner as respondent. The document was acknowledged before a notary in February 2026, marking the formal commencement of the case in the City of St. Louis.
The petition states that both parties have been residents of Missouri for more than ninety days preceding the filing and that each currently resides at the same Russell Boulevard address in St. Louis. They were married on January 5, 2007, with the marriage registered in the City of St. Louis. Though still residing together, the parties are described as having separated as husband and wife on or about December 2025.
No children were born of the marriage, and the respondent is not pregnant. The filing notes that the parties have maintained separate financial accounts and possess separate property and debt in their own names. It also identifies marital property and debt subject to division by the court. Neither party is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States. Both are retired, capable of supporting themselves, and neither seeks maintenance from the other.
The petition asserts that the marriage is irretrievably broken and that there is no reasonable likelihood it can be preserved. It asks the court to enter a judgment dissolving the marriage and to make such further orders as deemed just and proper. The document bears the signature of the petitioner and the certification of a notary, formalities that convert a private decision into a matter of public record.
February often brings a recalibration of accounts, personal as well as financial. Here, the accounting is precise: years of marriage, months since separation, assets to be sorted, debts to be apportioned. The court’s role is neither to revise the past nor to explain it, but to render a decree that settles what the parties themselves have concluded cannot continue.
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