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More than two decades after their marriage in Hazelwood, Missouri, LaTonya Baker and Myrian Baker appeared again in the public record through a petition filed in St. Louis County Circuit Court, case number 26SL-DR01766. The filing, sworn and notarized in May 2026, asks the court to dissolve a marriage the petition says can no longer be preserved.
According to the petition, the parties were married on March 19, 2004, and separated on or about March 1, 2008. Both were identified as Missouri residents who had lived in St. Louis County for at least 90 days before the filing. The document states there were no unemancipated children born of the marriage and that neither party was serving in the Armed Forces of the United States at the time the petition was submitted.
The filing also states that the parties possessed marital property and debts requiring equitable division, along with separate property to be set apart to each individual party. As in many dissolution petitions, the central legal assertion arrives in concise terms: that there is “no reasonable likelihood” the marriage can be preserved and that it is therefore irretrievably broken under Missouri law.
Court filings often compress long stretches of personal history into a chronology of dates, addresses, and statutory language. Years may separate the end of shared life from the formal request to dissolve it. The legal process arrives afterward, documenting what has already changed and assigning a framework for what remains to be resolved.
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