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A stillness settled over St. Louis County, Missouri, as February’s romantic fervor gave way to a somber legal step. On February 15, 2025, Phillip Jones, III filed a petition in the Family Court to dissolve his marriage to Ashley M. Jones, casting a shadow across Valentine’s month. The couple, wed on July 16, 2021, in a union registered in this county, had parted ways by October 1, 2024. Phillip, represented by Gerald W. Linnenbringer of Linnenbringer Law, declared the marriage irretrievably broken, a bond with no hope of mending.
Both residents of Missouri for over 90 days—Phillip on Oregon Avenue, Ashley on Hydraulic Avenue—they stood as working adults, free of unemancipated children or pending pregnancies. The petition, precise and unadorned, sought no maintenance for either, each capable of standing alone. Property and debts accumulated during their brief marriage awaited division, either through mutual agreement or the court’s equitable hand, while each claimed their separate assets.
Sworn before a notary on that mid-February day, Phillip’s filing cut through the month’s lingering echoes of love, a resolute act to untie a knot tied three years prior. In the hushed corridors of justice, it marked not a clash, but a quiet end.
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