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February, the month of whispered affections and crimson roses, bore witness to another kind of declaration—one of finality. On February 10, 2025, Stephanie Fox Knappe, through her attorney, Stacey M. Anderson of The Stacey Anderson Law Firm, filed a petition for dissolution of marriage in Jackson County, Missouri, bringing to a close nearly twenty-two years of legal union with Brett Kenneth Knappe.
Their story, once stitched together in vows exchanged on June 28, 2003, in Wood County, Wisconsin, began unraveling with their separation on February 9, 2019. Time had not mended the fracture. Now, Stephanie asserts that their marriage is irretrievably broken, a statement as stark as it is irrevocable.
The petition outlines practical concerns: their fourteen-year-old child, whose best interests, Stephanie argues, are served by joint legal and joint physical custody, with her residence designated for educational and mailing purposes. Financial entanglements—health insurance, medical expenses, extracurricular costs—are to be divided equitably. No plea for maintenance mars the petition; both parties, it claims, are capable of standing on their own.
In the legal precision of dissolution, the broader narrative emerges—one of passage. A marriage, once young and full of promise, now a ledger to be settled, assets and obligations divided. The court will determine what remains—memories consigned to the past, responsibilities assigned to the present.
And so, in the very month that celebrates love, Stephanie Fox Knappe places her signature on the end of hers.
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