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In Division 26SL-DR00674 of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, a petition bearing the name Zoraya Ocasio Blackmon was set down in February 17, 2026, sworn before a notary and submitted for filing. The pleading asks that her marriage to Robert Maurice Blackmon be dissolved, invoking the court’s authority after more than ninety days of residency in Missouri and six years in St. Louis County for each party.

The marriage began on June 4, 2017, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and was registered in Cumberland County. The parties separated on or about July 1, 2025. The petition states that neither is on active duty with the Armed Forces and that there is no reasonable likelihood the marriage can be preserved; it is, the filing declares, irretrievably broken.

During the marriage, the parties acquired property and debts and entered into a property settlement agreement as of the filing date. Each possesses separate property to be set aside accordingly. The petition further notes the existence of two unemancipated children of the marriage and requests joint legal and joint physical custody, with mailing and educational address designated to the petitioner, consistent with a proposed parenting plan filed contemporaneously. Informal arrangements regarding custody and support have been followed, and no other custody litigation is said to be pending in this or any other state.

The petitioner states she is not pregnant and seeks restoration of her maiden name, “Zoraya Ocasio Aponte.” She asks that maintenance be denied to both parties as non-modifiable and that child support be ordered as outlined in the proposed plan. As winter recedes and the court’s calendar advances, the filing places before the bench the practical architecture of a family’s reorganization—property to be divided, names to be restored, responsibilities to be fixed in enforceable terms—so that what has been lived privately since July 2025 may be concluded in a formal decree.

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