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In the still air of early autumn, something long-held loosened its grip. On September 30, 2025, in the Circuit Court of St. Charles County, Danae McCoy—through her counsel, Laura H. Stobie of Stobie Family Law Group, LLC—filed a petition seeking the dissolution of her marriage to Keith McCoy. The document, measured and steady, carried within it the quiet ache of finality, the kind that comes after long seasons of waiting for change that never arrives.
Married for years, the McCoys shared no children, no ties to bind them now beyond the law’s ledger of shared property and debt. The petition made clear there was no reasonable likelihood that the marriage could be preserved. What once may have been a sanctuary had become a house of echoes—where the words spoken too softly to hear still lingered, unanswered.
Neither party serves in the armed forces. Neither, it seems, carries illusions of reconciliation. Danae’s prayer before the court was simple: that the bonds of their marriage be dissolved, and that the court determine the equitable division of what remains. Beneath the formality lies something elemental—an ending not made of bitterness, but of resolve. The case, like so many that come before Missouri’s family courts, is a story of ordinary heartbreak rendered official, the slow unthreading of a life once shared, now submitted to the quiet judgment of law.
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