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On June 5, 2025, in the family division of the Circuit Court of St. Charles County, Missouri, Georgia Raynes stepped forward to ask the court for the quiet unraveling of a long bond. Represented by attorneys Jamie L. Emahiser and Cameron B. Alderman of Family Law Partners, she filed for the dissolution of her marriage to Richard Raynes—an effort to bring legal closure to a union that began on October 3, 2009, in St. Louis County.
For nearly sixteen years, Georgia and Richard shared a life in Missouri, residing in St. Charles County for the past nine. While the petition reveals that the couple has yet to physically separate, Georgia states with clarity that the marriage is irretrievably broken and beyond repair. There are no minor children, no pregnancy, and no request for maintenance from either party—each is employed and self-sufficient, a detail underscoring a relationship now reduced to property and paperwork.
Georgia requests that the court either approve a Marital Settlement Agreement if one is reached or equitably divide the marital estate should negotiations fall short. Each spouse retains non-marital assets and is expected to shoulder their own legal costs. No shadows of military service complicate the matter; no external proceedings distract from the central narrative: a quiet, firm decision to part ways, made not in haste but in recognition of a shared conclusion.
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