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In Division 2616-FC01109 of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, the matter is styled In re the Marriage of Rebekah Downey and Nicolas Downey. The original petition for dissolution was filed in November 2023, initiating formal proceedings in Jackson County.
The petition states that Rebekah Downey has been a resident of Jackson County, Missouri, for more than ninety days immediately preceding the filing. Nicolas Downey resides in Oak Grove, Missouri. The parties were married June 10, 2016, in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Three children were born of the marriage. The petition asserts that there is no reasonable likelihood the marriage can be preserved and that it is irretrievably broken.
According to the filing, the petitioner lacks the means to meet her basic needs and seeks an award of spousal maintenance. Each party is identified as being in possession of certain items of separate property. The respondent is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States; the petitioner is not. The petitioner further requests restoration of her maiden name, Rebekah Elisabeth Brummett, stating that no fraud or misrepresentation is involved and that no person will be detrimentally harmed by the change.
The petition invokes the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, asserting that Missouri is the home state of the minor children and that no other court has jurisdiction or pending actions concerning them. It references a joint parenting plan incorporated by agreement and seeks sole residential custody with visitation rights to the respondent, along with a child support order deemed fair and equitable. The filing maintains that the respondent is capable of providing needed support.
Such petitions assemble the essential elements of a family’s legal structure—residence, custody, maintenance, property—into a sequence of counts and statutory citations. Filed in late 2023, this action sets in motion a process governed by Missouri law, where determinations will be made not by assertion alone but by findings entered after review. The outcome will rest on those findings, recorded in the court’s docket as the formal conclusion of a marriage begun in 2016.
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