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There are seasons when even love exhausts itself, leaving two people adrift inside the same house, strangers to the silence they once called home. Such is the quiet unraveling at the center of Samantha M. Hawley v. Alec J. Hawley, a petition for dissolution of marriage filed on October 1, 2025, in the Family Court of St. Louis County. The couple, married on Halloween of 2018 in Jefferson County, Kentucky, last shared the same roof until their separation in October 2024—a full year before Samantha sought to end what she described as an irretrievably broken bond.
Samantha, represented by attorney Gerald W. Linnenbringer of Linnenbringer Law, asserted that both she and Alec had long met Missouri’s residency requirements and that they were no longer bound by the hopes that once tethered them. The petition reveals two young children, Missouri-born and now central to a jointly crafted parenting plan that hints at civility despite emotional distance. Both parties agreed that no maintenance should be awarded, that each would retain their own separate property, and that marital assets and debts should be divided fairly under the court’s supervision.
There is a sense of quiet resignation in Samantha’s words—an acknowledgment that the rhythm of their life together had dissolved into something unrecognizable. What remains now is the slow turning of the legal machinery, the careful sorting of property and memory, until only what is essential endures: the children, the peace, and the names written into the court’s record.
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