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On April 17, 2025, a quiet petition was filed in the Circuit Court of St. Charles County. It bore the name of Tabatha M. Sisler, who, through her counsel Douglas R. Smith of the O’Fallon Law Firm, formally sought to dissolve her marriage to Andrew W. Sisler—an institution that began nearly 13 years ago, on August 25, 2012.
The document is unadorned but resolute. It marks not a moment of rupture, but a slow unraveling. The couple separated in the summer of 2024, and by the time the petition reached the court, the marriage had been declared irretrievably broken. No dramatic allegations accompany the filing—only the quiet logic of lives that had grown apart.
Three children, born of that union, are now at the center of what comes next. Tabatha requests that custody be shared—joint legal and joint physical—as the children have already been living with each parent at their respective addresses for the past six months. The proposal suggests not a fight, but a co-authored future.
The division of property and debt looms as the court’s task, and the petition requests fairness—no more, no less. The language is plain, but beneath it lies the story of years spent building a life, and now, the deliberate process of dismantling it with care.
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