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There is a quiet ache beneath the facts written in the petition, the kind that seeps in during the long nights after a marriage has already begun to drift apart. Kaylee Jo Kirk, of Independence in Jackson County, brought that ache into the courthouse on September 24, 2025, asking the court to dissolve her marriage to Ethan Doty Kirk, who lives now in Kansas City. Their story began on an August day in 2022, in Raymore, Cass County—two years past and already distant.
Kaylee says there is no saving what has frayed; the marriage, she writes, is irretrievably broken. The couple separated in June 2025. There is one young child at the heart of the petition, and Kaylee is also expecting another. She asks that she and Ethan share joint legal and joint physical custody, yet that her own residence be designated the children’s address for school and mailing, a quiet acknowledgment of where their daily lives have been rooted.
The petition speaks of accumulated marital property and debts, of the need for a fair and equitable division. She asks the court to set aside non-marital property to each party, to award her maintenance, and to let each pay their own attorney’s fees unless Ethan stretches the case beyond reason. Kaylee is represented by attorney Kirby L. Minor of the Law Office of Kirby L. Minor, LLC.
The filing captures more than procedure: it tells of a brief marriage, a life reshaped by separation, and a young mother’s steady insistence on a path forward for herself and her children.
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