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The petition, stamped and sworn on February 28, 2025, is a formality, but its implications are anything but. Stephen B. Hemann, Jr. has taken the deliberate step of filing for the dissolution of his marriage to Samantha L. Kaiser in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Missouri, with attorneys Mark W. Haefner and Elizabeth P. Tadrick of Haefner Law Office, LLC, advocating his cause.
The marriage, registered in St. Louis County, began with vows exchanged on May 13, 2023, but less than a year later, the fractures widened into an irretrievable break. By May 1, 2024, the couple had parted ways, their union unraveling into separate lives, separate addresses, and soon, if the court grants Hemann’s request, separate property allocations. There are no children to complicate the division, no claims of military service, no expectancy of a child on the way—just a request for an equitable distribution of marital assets and debts before both parties step away for good.
In the unembellished language of the petition, Hemann asserts there is no reasonable likelihood of reconciliation, and so he asks the court to formally dissolve what has, in practice, already ended. The specifics—who left first, who held onto hope the longest, who decided the silence had stretched too far—are absent from the pages of the filing. What remains is a legal proceeding that, for all its cold precision, marks the end of a once-intended forever.
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