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There are moments in a long marriage when silence becomes a form of speech. On May 21, 2025, in the Independence division of the 16th Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, Colleen Fitzgerald Cable submitted her petition to dissolve her marriage to Curtis Paul Cable, a union that began on January 3, 1998, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. After nearly three decades of shared time and recent years of estrangement—marked by a separation date of October 15, 2022—Colleen now claims their marriage is “irretrievably broken,” a phrase as clinical as it is final.
The court filing offers little in the way of drama—no children, no ongoing pregnancy, no allegations of misconduct—only the weary clarity of two lives no longer in sync. The petitioner, represented by attorney Mark A. Wortman of Mark A. Wortman, Attorney at Law LC, seeks a judgment that not only ends the marriage but affirms the fairness of their already negotiated Marital Settlement Agreement.
Though both parties are employed, the petition notes that Curtis lacks sufficient property and is unable to support himself, prompting Colleen to request that maintenance be awarded to him. It’s an uncommon gesture, yet perhaps emblematic of a separation handled with deliberation rather than bitterness.
The filing signals a quiet end, not with fanfare, but with the measured cadence of legal prose—a final, deliberate punctuation to a long and shared story.
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