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In the soft hush of early October, Jamie Hampton stood before the quiet promise of change. Through her attorney, Michael R. Hanson of the Law Office of Michael Hanson, she filed a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage in the Circuit Court of St. Charles County on October 1, 2025. Her marriage to Zachery A. Hampton, solemnized on August 30, 2016, in Franklin County, had weathered years of shared effort before unraveling in May 2023. What once bound them had frayed beyond repair, the court papers stating simply that their marriage is “irretrievably broken.”
Jamie now resides in Franklin County, Missouri, while Zachery lives in Tippah County, Mississippi—two states away, two lives apart. Their union produced one child, born before marriage but later legitimized through it, a reminder of a time when the family’s center still held. The petition makes clear that neither party serves in the military and that both are capable of independent support. Still, beneath the procedural lines lies a quiet ache—a mother’s wish for stability, a father’s right to remain present.
Jamie asks the court for joint legal custody, with primary physical custody resting with her, allowing Zachery reasonable visitation. She also seeks a fair division of property and debts, hoping that fairness, at least, might prevail where permanence could not. Between their separate signatures and notary seals lies the echo of a familiar story—two people who once shared a home and now share only the wish to part gently, for the sake of what remains.
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