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The marriage was solemnized far from Missouri, in Zamora, Michoacán, Mexico, on February 23, 2019. Less than seven years later, the record shifts to the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, where Jesus Manzo Cerda has petitioned to dissolve his marriage to Mayra Salomon. The filing, verified before a notary in February 2026, opens Case No. 2622-FC00176 and asks the court to formally acknowledge what the petition describes as an irretrievable breakdown.
Jesus Manzo Cerda states that he has been a Missouri resident for at least ninety days preceding the petition. Mayra Salomon is alleged to have resided in California for at least ninety days before the filing. The parties separated and ceased living together as husband and wife on or about May 4, 2024. The petition asserts there is no reasonable likelihood the marriage can be preserved.
The court is informed that there is one minor, unemancipated child born of the marriage. According to the filing, no other custody proceedings are pending in Missouri or elsewhere, and no other person is known to claim custody or visitation rights. The petitioner requests that the court adopt a proposed parenting plan filed contemporaneously with the petition, stating that its terms are in the child’s best interests.
The petition further represents that neither party is a member of the Armed Forces and that neither seeks maintenance, each being described as able-bodied, gainfully employed, and capable of meeting his or her own reasonable needs. It identifies marital property and debt to be divided, as well as separate property and debt to be set aside to each party. In February, as courts resume the steady cadence of the year’s docket, such filings convert private estrangements into public procedure—facts reduced to numbered paragraphs, and a marriage measured against the statutory standards that govern its end.
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