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There are things that end not with violence but with the slow settling of silence—the kind that fills a house when two people stop speaking of love but continue to share its remnants. Sharif Griffin has come to that silence. Through his counsel, Attorney Joshua T. Mathews of The Mathews Group, L.C., he filed a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage in Jackson County, Missouri, on September 30, 2025, seeking to dissolve his marriage to Michelle Griffin. They both live at the same address on Elmira Court in Independence, Missouri, and though not yet separated, they no longer live as husband and wife.
Married on August 25, 2018, their union lasted seven years—years that now lie divided by what the petition calls irreconcilable differences. There is no hope, the filing says, that the marriage can be preserved. The couple shares three children, all grown and emancipated. There will be no custody battle, no fight for time. Only the quiet sorting of what remains—assets, debts, and the last unshared decisions of their married life.
Both are described as capable, self-supporting, and not in need of maintenance from each other. The petition asks for an equitable division of marital property, the setting apart of nonmarital assets, and that each bear their own costs and attorney’s fees. The request is simple, stripped of sentiment, final in its tone. What once was a life shared beneath one roof is now a matter for the court to divide, cleanly, like the last breath before dawn.
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