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In Jackson County Circuit Court at Independence, a marriage that began in eastern Missouri nearly nineteen years ago moved into formal dissolution proceedings this month. Adrienne M. Cole filed the petition against Jeremy Cole on May 5, 2026, stating that both parties had resided in Missouri for the required statutory period before the case was brought. The couple married on September 22, 2007, in Oak Grove, with the marriage registered in Jackson County.
The petition says the parties separated on March 6, 2026, and describes the marriage as “irretrievably broken,” with no reasonable likelihood it can be preserved. Court filings indicate that the parties accumulated marital property and debts during the marriage but had not yet reached a settlement agreement at the time of filing. Adrienne M. Cole requested that non-marital property be awarded separately and that any eventual division of marital assets and liabilities be handled in a fair and equitable manner.
The filing also asks the court to award sole legal and physical custody of the parties’ unemancipated children to the petitioner, alongside child support consistent with Missouri guidelines. According to the petition, neither party is seeking maintenance, and each should be responsible for their own legal expenses unless future litigation conduct substantially increases costs. The petitioner further requested restoration of a former maiden name.
Family court petitions often present the end of a marriage through procedural language that is necessarily compressed: dates, requests, statutory declarations. Yet the process that follows tends to unfold incrementally, through hearings, disclosures, and negotiated arrangements that reshape the practical terms of daily life long after the initial filing enters the record.
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