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What remains of a marriage can sometimes be measured not in years together, but in the quiet distance that grows between two lives long before the law takes notice. In St. Louis County, that distance now takes legal form as Marisela Rivas petitions the Circuit Court to dissolve her marriage to Michael S. Flotron, a union that began in California in the summer of 2015 and unraveled years later under the weight of irreconcilable differences.
Filed on December 2, 2025, the petition states that the marriage is irretrievably broken, with no reasonable likelihood of repair. The parties separated in April 2018, and no children were born of the marriage. According to the filing, neither party is currently serving in the armed forces, and no maintenance arrangements have been established or requested. Marisela Rivas affirms that she is capable of supporting herself and does not seek spousal support from the court.
Through her attorney, Neil Smith of Ne Smith Law Firm, LLC, the petitioner asks the court to formally dissolve the marriage and bring clarity to the financial matters that remain. The petition requests an equitable division of marital property and debts accumulated during the marriage pursuant to Missouri law, while also asking that each party’s nonmarital property be set aside as separate and distinct.
Michael S. Flotron is described as presently unable to be located, though believed to reside in St. Louis County. Despite that uncertainty, the petition moves forward with measured resolve, asking the court to grant dissolution and any further relief deemed just and proper under the circumstances—an orderly conclusion to a marriage already long past its end.
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