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In the quiet turns of late summer, a marriage that once began with promise has now reached its ending. On September 18, 2025, Michelle L. May stepped into the Circuit Court of St. Charles County to file her petition for dissolution of marriage against Sean P. May. Represented by her attorney, Douglas R. Smith of Douglas R. Smith Law, she brought forward the story of a union that began on January 31, 2003, in St. Charles County, only to fracture twenty-two years later.
Michelle and Sean share no children, and the petition makes clear that there is no expectation of new life to bind them. Their lives, once intertwined, have been moving in separate rhythms since their effective separation on August 16, 2025. Both have established their own paths—Michelle in Wentzville, Sean in O’Fallon—each working, each standing independently in their daily pursuits.
The petition states what has already become undeniable: the marriage is irretrievably broken, and there is no hope of preservation. There are marital assets and debts to be divided, yet both parties hold separate property that remains their own. Michelle does not seek maintenance but instead asks the court for fairness in the division of what was built and carried through the years.
The filing is not framed by recrimination or accusation but by a steady acceptance that a chapter has closed. What began in commitment has dissolved into distance, leaving the court to mark the final line of a marriage that once carried promise but can no longer hold.
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