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In the austere chambers of Jackson County’s Circuit Court in Kansas City, a quiet but unambiguous fracture has been recorded in public record. On June 4, 2025, Jacobo Sarmiento Cardona petitioned for the dissolution of his marriage to Dunia Jakely Varela Santos—a union that began a world away, on April 16, 1998, in Honduras.
This petition, filed with the help of attorney Jessica A. Gregory, marks not only the end of a legal bond but a departure from a shared past that spanned over two decades. The respondent, Varela Santos, currently resides in Honduras. No children were born of the marriage, and the petitioner affirms that his former partner is not pregnant.
Yet the case is not devoid of complexity. As is often the residue of any lengthy union, there are entanglements—property and debt accumulated over the years. These, Cardona asserts, should be divided according to Missouri law.
There is no mention of bitterness or betrayal—only the solemn acknowledgment that the marriage is “irretrievably broken,” with no reasonable hope for preservation. Absent are the high theatrics of accusation or drama. In their place, we find something colder, more permanent: the methodical unraveling of a relationship, sealed in legal language, and delivered to the state.
Cardona’s story is not loud. But it speaks. It speaks of migration, distance, endurance—and the ultimate decision to let go when reconciliation no longer finds soil in which to grow.
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