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There are petitions that seem to gather themselves from years of quiet strain, and on November 25, 2025, Casandra D. Howerton stepped forward into the Independence courthouse in Jackson County with such a petition in hand. Through her counsel, Troy Leavitt of Troy J. Leavitt Law Firm, LLC, she asked the court to recognize what she describes as an irretrievable breaking of her ten-year marriage to Thomas P. Howerton—an ending that arrived not with spectacle, but with a long accumulation of distance neither could bridge.
She recounts a home where the children have largely lived under the shared roof of both parents, though she now asks the court to place sole legal and sole physical custody with her, with supervised visitation for Thomas. Her filing underscores the need for stability: authority to enforce custody orders, adherence to her proposed parenting plan, and child support consistent with Missouri statutes and Form 14. She also seeks maintenance to sustain her standard of living as the marriage dissolves.
Casandra asks that the court divide marital property fairly, or evaluate any agreement the parties might present, and she reserves the right to request attorney’s fees should litigation become needlessly prolonged. What she places before the court is a plea for clarity—custody set firm, financial obligations defined, and the slow unspooling of a marriage formally brought to its end.
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