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The brief but irreversible collapse of a union formed barely two autumns ago has come under scrutiny in the courts of St. Charles County, Missouri. On May 20, 2025, Abigal A. Reed, through her attorneys Joseph J. Porzenski and John P. Wagner of Turken & Porzenski, LLC, petitioned for the dissolution of her marriage to Christopher Reed II. The marriage, solemnized on September 23, 2023, in Lincoln County, produced a child—an infant now just eight months old—around whom the future terms of custody and support are set to revolve.
The petition portrays a household that has already disbanded, with the petitioner asserting a constructive separation coinciding with the day of filing. Abigal now resides separately in O’Fallon, Missouri, where the child remains in her care. She requests sole legal custody but allows for joint physical custody, an arrangement framed within a proposed parenting plan.
Citing no reasonable likelihood of reconciliation, Abigal asks the court to recognize the marriage as irretrievably broken. She seeks a fair division of marital property and debt, denies the need for spousal maintenance from either party, and asserts her entitlement to child support under Missouri guidelines, retroactive to the date of filing. She also petitions for her legal fees to be borne by the respondent.
This case, though rooted in a young marriage, raises familiar and weighty questions: the cost of incompatibility, the burden of early parenting amidst separation, and the quiet unraveling of vows once declared before witnesses, now dissected in legal prose.
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