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The quiet breakdown of a nearly decade-long marriage between Johanna Brooke Nielsen and Michael David Nielsen has led to a petition for dissolution in St. Charles County. Filed on September 16, 2024, Johanna, represented by Jane Ellen Tomich of Tomich Law Firm, details an irretrievably broken marriage that cannot be saved. The pair, who wed on October 17, 2015, in Liberty, Missouri, separated in June 2024, after a relationship that ultimately frayed beyond repair.

There are no children from the marriage, and neither party is in the military. Both Johanna and Michael have established careers, with the petitioner being self-employed, and both capable of shouldering their respective legal fees and costs. Throughout the petition, Johanna stresses that the couple’s assets and debts, amassed over the course of their marriage, must be divided equitably by the court.

In her prayers to the court, Johanna asks for the dissolution of the marriage and the preservation of her separate property, leaving each party to handle their own legal costs. Her claim lays bare the dissolution of a marriage between two financially stable individuals, whose ties, both personal and material, are in need of a final resolution.

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