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Divorce proceedings, like autobiographies, offer selective truths cloaked in formality. On July 23, 2025, in Jackson County, Missouri, Kelly M. Belknap filed a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage against Kasie B. Jones. The language of the filing avoids sentiment. Its restraint is its clarity. It admits the end without trying to make it beautiful.
The couple married on May 9, 2024. By May 2025, the marriage had ruptured—quickly, but not unusually so. No children were born or adopted during the brief union. No claims of military service or dependent support disrupt the contours of the paperwork. They are both employed, both self-supporting, and, by legal confession, neither is in need of maintenance. There is no request for punishment, only separation.
There is mention of non-marital property: what each brought into the relationship should be returned unblemished. Any minimal shared debts or assets are to be split according to who receives what. The filing acknowledges a pre-nuptial agreement, as though anticipating conflict and moving to preempt it. Both parties are to bear the legal costs equally—a quiet nod to balance, if not affection.
Kelly is represented by Les D. Wight of The Law Offices of Les D. Wight, LLC, based in Independence. The filing is a model of discretion, its elegance lying in its sparseness. It offers no excuses, only a formal recognition that what was formed has now unraveled.
In the end, it tells us little. But it tells us enough.
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