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On August 12, 2025, in St. Louis County, Missouri, Leandra D. Kohnen submitted a petition that marked the quiet unraveling of a marriage begun more than a quarter-century ago. With the guidance of her attorney, Gerald W. Linnenbringer of Linnenbringer Law, she placed before the Family Court the story of her life with Eric J. Kohnen, a story that began on June 12, 1999, and now arrives at its inevitable end.
The petition carries none of the drama of scandal, only the still weight of finality. The couple separated in December 2023, and in the intervening months the distance between them solidified into permanence. There are no children to draw the court into questions of custody, no unborn life to complicate the proceedings. Both Leandra and Eric are employed, independent, and neither asks the other for maintenance.
What remains is the sorting of a shared history into what belongs to one and what belongs to the other. Each holds separate property and non-marital assets; together they have accumulated obligations and possessions that must now be divided. Leandra asks the court to approve any marital settlement agreement reached between them, or else to divide the assets and debts fairly should no such agreement exist.
At the center of the petition lies the simple but irrevocable declaration: the marriage is irretrievably broken. In the formal language of dissolution, it is a recognition that what once bound two lives together has shifted into something unrecognizable, a companionship now surrendered to time and distance.
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