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There are moments when endings drift in like fog—unhurried, inevitable, and impossible to ignore. For Jeffrey Perkins and Jacki Marks, the end of their marriage was less an explosion than a dimming, a quiet slipping away from the life they once pledged to build together. In a petition filed on June 5, 2025, in the Circuit Court of St. Charles County, Missouri, Jeffrey Perkins, represented by attorney Abigail DeBruin of The Bellon Law Group, sought the dissolution of a marriage that had lasted years but yielded no children, and, it seems, no longer held its original promise.
They had married in St. Charles County, Missouri, the same county where Jeffrey still resides. Jacki now lives in neighboring St. Louis County. While the record does not give us the shape of their days or the texture of their silences, it tells us what remains: shared property, the absence of minor children, and a mutual recognition that the marriage is, in Jeffrey’s words, “irretrievably broken.”
There is no request for spousal maintenance. Each is presumed capable of sustaining themselves. The plea to the court is simple, unadorned: a fair division of what they acquired together, and a respectful recognition of what no longer binds them.
What’s left is the untethering. What follows is something quieter than heartbreak—perhaps the delicate architecture of two separate lives beginning again.
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