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The record does not speak of thunderclaps or sudden ruin, only of a marriage that has come to rest under its own weight. In St. Louis County, Missouri, Jerard Leverson has asked the court to dissolve his marriage to Raquel Leverson, filing his Petition for Dissolution of Marriage on December 1, 2025. What is presented is not spectacle, but inevitability—a domestic arrangement that, by his account, can no longer be held together by habit or hope.

Through counsel Laura H. Stobie of Stobie Family Law Group, LLC, Jerard Leverson states that both parties have satisfied Missouri’s residency requirements and that the marriage, solemnized years earlier in St. Louis County, is now irretrievably broken. The spouses have lived separate lives as husband and wife, and reconciliation, the petition suggests, is neither reasonable nor likely. There are four minor children of the marriage, and the filing asserts that no other custody proceedings are pending before any court.

The petition advances a series of measured requests. Jerard Leverson asks that the marriage be formally dissolved and that the court award the parties joint legal and physical custody of the children pursuant to an agreed parenting plan. He seeks child support calculated under Missouri Supreme Court guidelines, asserting that he lacks sufficient income to support himself and the children independently. The filing further alleges that Raquel Leverson is able-bodied and financially capable of contributing both to household support and to a portion of Jerard Leverson’s attorney’s fees and litigation costs.

He also asks the court to set aside his separate property, to equitably divide the marital property and debts, and to assess costs against the respondent. Finally, the petition leaves room for the court to grant such other relief as it deems just and proper, a quiet acknowledgment that even the cleanest endings require judgment.

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