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Jasmine S. Brown walked into the St. Louis County Circuit Court on March 4, 2025, her petition for divorce from Mark A. Esters Jr. a stark declaration of a life unmoored. With Joseph A. Specter, a solo attorney from St. Louis, she laid out the wreckage of a marriage begun January 5, 2009, in this same county—a bond severed by February 10, 2011, and now irretrievably broken. Both Missourians for over ninety days, she stands at one address, he at another, though jail bars at the St. Louis City Justice Center now cage him, charged with a firearm offense.
One child, sixteen, born before their vows, carries Mark’s name on her birth certificate, a legal tether Jasmine seeks to claim sole custody of—legal and physical. Mark’s absence, his silence, his disconnection from their daughter fuel her case; she’s raised the girl alone. No property agreements exist, no support arranged—just marital assets and debts to split, separate holdings to assign. Neither seeks maintenance; both, she says, can fend for themselves. But she needs his coin for legal fees, her own purse too thin.
This filing on March 4, 2025, isn’t mere paperwork—it’s a mother’s stand against abandonment, a cry for justice in a system that often shrugs at the dispossessed.
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