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In the cold, bureaucratic halls of the St. Louis County Family Court, a petition filed on February 6, 2025, marked the end of a union that began with vows on October 22, 2017. Benjamin A. Evans, a resident of St. Louis, Missouri, sought the dissolution of his marriage to Rebecca L. Evans, who now resides in Hillsboro, Indiana. The timing of the filing, just days before Valentine’s Day, lent a bitter irony to the proceedings, as the world prepared to celebrate love while their own had crumbled. The couple, married for seven years, had been living apart since March 15, 2023, their separation now formalized by the stark language of the law. Benjamin’s attorney, Gerald W. Linnenbringer of Linnenbringer Law, presented the case with clinical precision, outlining the division of non-marital assets and the equitable distribution of marital property and debts. There were no children to bind them, no maintenance requested, no lingering threads of dependency—only the cold, hard reality of a marriage deemed “irretrievably broken.”
The petition, sworn under oath by Benjamin, spoke of a relationship that had run its course, its end as inevitable as it was unceremonious. The court, now tasked with dividing the remnants of their shared life, would decide the final chapter of a story that began with promise but ended in silence. In a world that often romanticizes love, this filing served as a stark reminder of its fragility. As the ink dried on the legal documents, Benjamin and Rebecca moved forward, their paths diverging under the weight of what once was.
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