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In the Circuit Court of St. Charles County, Missouri, the contours of a once-shared life have entered the realm of legal petition. Lauren Abra Morreale, represented by Cynthia L. Albin and Ashley M. Schaper of Todt, Cody, Albin & Fuchs, LLC, filed a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage on September 23, 2025, seeking to end her marriage to Jeffrey Thomas Morreale.
Their marriage, solemnized on May 21, 2011, in Mendocino County, California, carried them across years of partnership and parenting. But separation came on August 9, 2024, a marker of the unraveling of shared domestic life. They have one minor child, whose best interests remain central to the petition. Lauren asks the court to grant joint legal and joint physical custody, with child support calculated under Missouri’s statutory guidelines, emphasizing continuity for their child amid the family’s shifting circumstances.
Lauren’s petition affirms that the marriage is irretrievably broken, with no reasonable chance of reconciliation. It requests a fair and equitable division of marital property and debts, the setting aside of each party’s separate property, and an order that Jeffrey contribute to her attorney’s fees, citing her lack of sufficient resources to meet those costs alone. She also seeks the restoration of her maiden name, Lauren Abra Lees, as a symbolic return to her former self.
The case reflects the intersection of personal history and legal process: a family’s future reorganized by court decree, as the petitioner frames her requests not only around the end of the marriage but also the care of their child and the equitable resolution of their shared obligations.
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