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In the fading architecture of a thirteen-year marriage, the petition of James Weske v. Daniel Davis arrives like a quiet but decisive breach in the St. Louis City court docket. Filed on October 8, 2025, it marks the formal end of a bond first recorded in Manhattan County, New York, on June 8, 2012. Though the couple has not yet physically separated, the filing acknowledges a deeper fracture — a constructive separation that has already taken place in the silence between them.
Represented by attorneys Michelle J. Spirn, Alexandra D. Noll, and Julia R. Dillow of Spirn Family Law, James Weske petitions the court to dissolve the marriage on the grounds that it is “irretrievably broken.” He seeks joint legal and joint physical custody of their two children, as well as child support and maintenance from Davis, who is described as gainfully employed with sufficient means to contribute to both family and legal costs. The petition also asks the court to divide marital assets and debts in accordance with Missouri law, setting apart each party’s non-marital property.
In his sworn statement, Weske contends that the marriage cannot be preserved. There are no pending custody disputes, no competing claims, no interference from other states or courts — just the slow, deliberate act of unraveling what was once intertwined. Beneath the legal formalities runs the steady pulse of resignation, a recognition that what began in ceremony must now end in structure and order, carried forward by the weight of law and the faint echo of vows long gone.
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