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On August 21, 2025, in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Missouri, Amanda L. Graebe filed a petition to dissolve her marriage to Justin W. Graebe, marking the formal unraveling of a union that began on June 15, 2013, in St. Clair County, Illinois. After nearly a decade together, the couple’s bond fractured, with a constructive separation occurring on December 27, 2022. Amanda, represented by attorneys Allison R. Gerli and Lucy D. Weilbacher of The Center for Family Law, asserts that the marriage is irretrievably broken and beyond preservation.
Her petition outlines a request for the court to dissolve the marriage, divide marital property and debts equitably, and ensure that each party’s separate property remains their own. Both parties are acknowledged as able-bodied and employed, capable of supporting themselves without maintenance or reliance on one another. Likewise, Amanda seeks no order for attorney’s fees, contending that both she and Justin are fully able to shoulder their own legal expenses.
The matter of child custody and support has not yet been resolved, though Amanda confirms there are no competing custody claims or parallel proceedings in any other court. She emphasizes that neither she nor Justin is in the military and that she is not pregnant, narrowing the issues before the court to the dissolution itself, property division, and arrangements for their children.
What remains is a judicial decision to finalize the severing of a marriage that, by Amanda’s sworn account, has reached its irreversible end.
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