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Case No. 26SL-DR00476 appears without embellishment on the docket of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County. It is styled In re the Marriage of John Koebbe and Mary Koebbe, and it instructs that the respondent be served by special process server. The petition was filed February 4, 2026, placing the marriage into formal review.

The filing states that both parties have been residents of Missouri and St. Louis County for more than ninety days preceding the commencement of the proceeding. Each is over the age of eighteen. They were married on November 26, 2006, and the marriage is registered in St. Louis City, Missouri. Though they have not physically separated, the petition says they consider themselves constructively separated as of the date of filing.

There were no children born of the marriage. The petition affirms that neither party is serving on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States or its allies and, upon information and belief, that the respondent is not pregnant. Both parties are described as gainfully employed and capable of paying their own attorney’s fees and litigation costs.

The pleading asserts that the parties accumulated assets and debts during the marriage and asks the court to divide marital property and debts equitably in accordance with Missouri law. It states that the marriage is irretrievably broken and that there is no reasonable likelihood it can be preserved. The petitioner requests a decree dissolving the marriage and any further orders the court deems just and proper.

Filed in the opening stretch of February, the case now moves through the structured pace of family court procedure. Service, response, and eventual findings will determine how property is distributed and the marriage formally concluded, translating a private shift in status into a public record shaped by statute and order.

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