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There are few spectacles as inevitable—and as ordinary—as the collapse of a marriage. In St. Louis County, Missouri, Brian R. Take has joined the ranks of those who have turned to the court for reprieve. On October 6, 2025, he filed his Petition for Dissolution of Marriage against Alicia M. Brockland, a union that began on September 9, 2022, under the bright lights of Clark County, Nevada, and dimmed into separation by August 19, 2025.
Represented by attorney Thomas Karsten of Karsten & Bridges, LLC, Take asserts that the marriage is “irretrievably broken,” beyond the point of remedy or reconciliation. He requests that the court dissolve the union, divide the marital property and debts equitably, and assign each party their respective separate property. There are no children from the marriage, no pregnancies, and no military service to complicate the matter. What remains is a ledger of shared assets and liabilities, a tidy reckoning of what was once the enterprise of two.
The petition contains no embellishment—no tales of betrayal or grievance. Yet behind its austere phrasing lies the anatomy of modern disillusionment: two professionals, both rooted in the same county, finding themselves undone not by scandal but by inertia. A marriage contracted with optimism has yielded to the procedural machinery of its undoing. As with many such cases, the court’s duty now is not to interpret emotion but to distribute equity, to sign the quiet paperwork that formalizes the end of another domestic experiment.
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