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On June 12, 2025, in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, Earnest Swan formally petitioned to dissolve his marriage to Tammy Swan, bringing a measured end to a union that began in the summer of 2017 in Lincoln County, Missouri. Now retired, Earnest resides in south St. Louis, while Tammy, currently unemployed, lives in Moscow Mills.
There are no children, no future plans tethering them to each other—only the echoes of a separation that took place quietly in the fall of 2024. The marriage, he asserts, is irretrievably broken. The petition is not a plea but a pragmatic call for resolution. Both parties are of sound health and financial independence; neither requests maintenance.
But while the emotional bond has worn thin, the material threads remain tangled. They share marital property and debts that must now be divided. Earnest, represented by attorney Rob N. Hamilton of Reinker, Hamilton & Fenley, L.L.C., seeks a fair apportionment and asks that his legal fees be covered—either by agreement or by order.
The filing outlines no drama, no acrimony—just a marriage that, as Swan tells it, met its quiet expiration. It is a document of detachment, of individuals acknowledging the full stop at the end of a shared sentence. What remains is the task of disentanglement—a matter now left to the court’s discretion.
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