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On April 23, 2025, Latisha Yvonne Graves stood before the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, asking to formally end a marriage she described as irretrievably broken. Represented by Amy Allshouse of Legal Aid of Western Missouri, Graves laid bare not only the disintegration of her union with Glen Allen Graves but the pain that came with it — citing a consistent pattern of domestic violence that marked the course of their relationship.
Their story began in Kansas City on April 11, 2021. By February 19, 2023, they had gone their separate ways. There are no children from the marriage, but shared debts and assets remain — tangled reminders of a partnership that once held promise. Graves, unemployed and without funds, seeks relief not only from her husband but from the financial burdens of litigation itself. She has petitioned the court for a waiver of all court costs and attorney fees, asserting that Glen Allen Graves — currently employed in Colorado — can shoulder his own.
Beyond the dissolution, Graves requests the restoration of her former name, Latisha Yvonne Smith, and a fair and equitable division of their marital property. She asks the court to consider her husband’s alleged misconduct in doing so. No arrangements have been made for spousal maintenance, and she seeks none. Her request is clear: a clean break, a return to self, and a measure of justice.
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