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In St. Louis City, Missouri, Lingli Zhang has taken the formal step to end her long but fractured marriage to Xiao Xu, filing her Petition for Dissolution of Marriage on October 16, 2025. What began nearly two decades ago, on June 30, 2006, in Brazos County, Texas, unraveled quietly more than a decade ago, when the couple separated on August 8, 2014. Since then, their lives have moved on in separate directions—Zhang now settled in St. Louis and Xu residing in Dallas, Texas.
Represented by Attorney Jennifer L. Rench of J. Rench Law Firm, LLC, Zhang states in her petition that the marriage is irretrievably broken, with no reasonable chance of reconciliation. No children were born or adopted during the union, and both parties are employed and financially self-sufficient. The petition emphasizes that neither spouse seeks maintenance, underscoring a clean financial severance that mirrors the emotional distance long established between them.
The filing details a pragmatic conclusion to a relationship that has existed in name only for over a decade. Both Zhang and Xu possess marital and separate property and have incurred debts that will now be divided equitably by the court. In her request, Zhang asks that each retain their non-marital assets and that the remaining property and obligations be apportioned fairly. In the restrained legal language of her petition lies a deeper story—two people, bound once by commitment, now seeking closure through the quiet machinery of Missouri law.
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