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Sometimes a marriage ends not with a sudden rupture but with a steady, nearly imperceptible drifting apart—an unraveling that becomes visible only once it’s written down in the quiet formality of a petition. That is what Christopher A. Nenonen placed before the St. Louis County Circuit Court when he filed his Petition for Dissolution of Marriage on November 20, 2025. Through his attorneys, Kevin L. Wibbenmeyer and Brandee D. Iannelli of Wibbenmeyer Iannelli Law, LLC, Christopher outlines a life built over thirteen years of marriage, and the slow disassembling that followed.

He and Ashley N. Nenonen married in August of 2012 in Tennessee, carrying their vows back to Missouri where they later raised their two children. But by July of 2025, the path they walked together had split into two quiet, parallel tracks. Both parties have lived in Missouri long enough to bring the matter before the court, and Christopher believes the marriage is irretrievably broken, with no reasonable chance of repair.

His petition asks for the dissolution of the marriage, but also for a structured future: joint legal and joint physical custody of their minor children; a parenting schedule built around shared responsibility; their marital property and debts divided fairly; and his separate property set aside to him alone. He affirms that no other custody litigation exists, and no one outside the marriage holds a claim to the children.

In the end, Christopher requests any additional relief the court finds just—as though acknowledging that even in endings, one hopes for a measure of steadiness.

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