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When Elizabeth J. Lewis stepped into the St. Louis City Circuit Court to file her petition on April 25, 2025, she was closing a chapter that had been nearly three decades in the making. Married to James H. Guest III since September 3, 1995, in Dutchess County, New York, their union, once built on shared ambitions, had worn thin. The parties separated on August 6, 2024, after living separately in more than spirit for months, if not years.
Represented by attorneys Elaine A. Pudlowski and Rachel J. Thompson of Frankel, Rubin, Klein, Payne & Pudlowski, P.C., Lewis made it clear: their marriage was irretrievably broken, with no reasonable likelihood of reconciliation. No children had been born of their marriage, and neither spouse was seeking maintenance. Both Lewis and Guest signaled an end to their entanglements with pragmatism, having divided their marital and separate property through a mutual agreement they now ask the Court to formalize.
There were no accusations, no demands for extraordinary relief — only the quiet recognition that what had once been woven tightly together had come unraveled, strand by strand. Lewis’s petition asks the Court to dissolve the marriage and approve their separation agreement, wrapping the matter in the dignified finality that both parties, it seems, have long since accepted.
The next move belongs to the Court.
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