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There are silences in public records—strategic silences—that say as much as the stated facts. In Jackson County, Missouri, a man named Jeffrey Kimberlin stepped forward through the veil of procedural formality to file a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage against Julie Kay Kimberlin. It was June 16, 2025, when the petition was sworn, filed, and made official—a move not sudden, but long considered.
Their marriage began on October 20, 2018, in Baldwin City, Kansas, and its unraveling commenced with a separation on January 1, 2024. The petition, filed through attorney Howard L. Lotven , cites irretrievable breakdown. The words are bureaucratic, but what lies beneath them is a shared life—homes, debts, a child—divided by the weight of time and accumulation of unspoken fractures.
The Kimberlins are not young lovers undone by folly. They are working adults—he employed at Foley Industries, she self-employed—navigating a dissolution that will reassign their shared property, realign custody of their minor child, and remove all doubt that this union can be preserved.
There is no claim of misconduct, no request for maintenance. But there is a plea: that Ms. Kimberlin, the respondent, be made to carry a portion of the legal costs. The court will decide not just how assets are split, but how the cost of ending a marriage is distributed between two people who once promised each other permanence.
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