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The calendar had barely reset when Patrick Thomas Mann decided not to wait for momentum or mercy. Filed January 7, 2026, in Jackson County, Missouri, at Independence, the petition reads like a deliberate break from the habit of lingering—unlike year-end filings that arrive bloated with hesitation, this one moves cleanly, efficiently, and without nostalgia. New year, no revisions.

Patrick Mann and Jennifer Anne Mann meet the court not as a spectacle but as a transaction coming to its end. Both adults, both Missouri residents, neither bound by military service or outside entanglements, and neither pretending the marriage has a future. The petition states plainly that the marriage is irretrievably broken, beyond recovery, beyond discussion.

Represented by Emily B. Null of Drama-Free Divorce LLC, Patrick Mann asks the court to dissolve the marriage and divide the marital property and debts in a fair and equitable manner, while setting aside non-marital property to its proper owner. He further requests that any Marital Settlement Agreement entered between the parties be found not unconscionable—reasonable, measured, intact.

The petition addresses the children with the same precision. It asks the court to adopt the parties’ Joint Stipulated Parenting Plan, affirming it is in the children’s best interest. It seeks child support calculated under Missouri Form 14, confirms the children’s health insurance coverage must remain uninterrupted, and notes that no competing custody proceedings exist anywhere else.

Each party is to pay their own attorney’s fees; the filing fee has already been handled. Unlike December filings that drag old years into court, this one cuts forward—controlled, pared down, and intent on closure rather than reflection.

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