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There are stories where the institution of marriage, that once noble invention, crumbles not from fire but from frost. Such is the case in Kingsley v. Kingsley, filed on May 1, 2025, in the Family Court Division of Jackson County, Missouri. Kaitlin A. Kingsley, through her counsel Kevin W. Puckett of Kevin Puckett Attorney at Law, LLC, seeks a formal dissolution of her nearly decade-long union with Samuel M. Kingsley, solemnized on December 29, 2015, in South Jordan, Utah. Their separation began quietly on or about April 25, 2022—a date that now marks the slow unraveling of a shared domestic script.
The marriage produced three minor children, all of whom remain in Kaitlin’s custody. She petitions the court not merely for the severance of marital bonds but for sole legal and physical custody, with supervised visitation granted to Samuel. The language of the petition is less the desperate wail of a wounded spouse than the precise dissection of a household long bereft of unity.
Kaitlin, though employed, claims insufficient means to sustain herself and requests both maintenance and attorney’s fees. Samuel, meanwhile, draws income from the Salvation Army and is not, per the record, in need of financial assistance.
No settlement has yet been reached on marital assets, nor maintenance arrangements. But the overriding note is one of irretrievability—the marriage, as submitted to the court, is beyond repair. What remains now is the sorting of detritus: custody, property, support. The wreckage of what was once intended to last.
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