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In a filing before the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Missouri, Junying Gao has asked the court to dissolve her marriage to Shaoxiong Peng. The petition entered the court record March 4, 2026, outlining a marriage that began decades earlier and has long since come apart.
The document states that Gao has lived in St. Louis County for at least ninety days prior to filing. Her listed address is in St. Louis, Missouri. The respondent’s last known address is recorded as Hongqi South Road in Tianjin, China, though the petition says his current location is unknown.
According to the filing, the parties married on April 21, 1987, in China, where the marriage was registered. They separated in September 2000 and, the petition states, have not seen one another since that time. Gao confirms she is not pregnant and that no unemancipated children were born or adopted during the marriage.
The petition asserts there is no reasonable likelihood the marriage can be preserved and describes it as irretrievably broken. It asks the court to divide marital property and debts in a fair and equitable manner and to set aside each party’s non-marital property. The filing also states that neither party requires maintenance and that each should be responsible for their own legal fees.
Such filings often bring to the surface timelines that stretch across years and across borders. With the March 4 petition now part of the court record, the matter moves into the procedural path of the Missouri courts, where the legal conclusion of a long-separated marriage will be determined.
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