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Sandra Dayse knew there was no clean way to end a marriage, only the hope of some grace in the unraveling. With the help of her attorney, William Talbert of Talbert Divorce and Family Law LLC, she put the truth into words—precise, unflinching, and stripped of romance. Twelve lines in and it was all there: the beginning on December 19, 2015, in Jackson County, Missouri; the slow drift toward absence; the day it became clear, August 1, 2023, that they were no longer tethered.
On August 5, 2025, she filed the petition in the Circuit Court of Jackson County. There were no children to complicate the telling, no shared custody to negotiate, just the ledger of assets and debts they had collected in their near eight years together. She named irreconcilable differences as the reason, and the words carried the quiet devastation of a door closed for good.
Willis Whitfield, once her partner in possibility, was now simply the respondent. Unemployed, living in the same county but in a different orbit. They were both adults, healthy, able to support themselves, and—Sandra made sure to note—neither would receive maintenance.
It wasn’t about blame, at least not in the court documents. It was about the math of an ending: dividing what was once shared, returning to singular lives. What had been theirs was now something to be sorted, parceled out, and left behind. The love had already gone; this was just the paperwork.
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