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Filed on July 7, 2025, in Jackson County, Missouri, the marriage of Anne Theresa Malherbe and Daneel Malherbe has come under formal scrutiny. In the petition submitted by Anne—who remains, for now, under the same roof as her husband—the foundation of the marriage, solemnized on September 14, 2014, in Kansas City, is declared irreparably fractured. Though they continue to share a residence, Anne seeks the court’s intervention to end a union she now deems unsalvageable.
At the core of the filing lies a contention familiar to many family courts: a breakdown beyond repair and the best interests of the children they share. Anne, represented by attorney Deborah D. Conklin of Hankins & Conklin, P.C., petitions for the court to adopt her proposed parenting plan and order Daneel to contribute fairly to the children’s financial support. She asks that child support obligations be retroactive to the date of filing, guided by Missouri’s Form 14 standard.
The petition also requests an equitable division of marital assets and liabilities and affirms that each spouse should manage their own legal expenses—unless Daneel is found to have prolonged the proceedings or failed in his disclosures, in which case, Anne seeks reimbursement for her legal costs.
In total, the petition speaks not in anger but in finality, invoking the quiet procedural machinery of law to disentangle two lives, shared for nearly eleven years, in a tone not of bitterness, but of necessary closure.
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