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On September 23, 2025, in Jackson County, Missouri, T’era L. Harvey filed a petition to dissolve her marriage to Rico S. Harvey. The case, represented through counsel Dwight D. Alexander II of The Alexander Law Firm, LLC, carried with it the quiet brevity of a union that never truly began. Married only a year earlier, on September 23, 2024, in Johnson County, Kansas, the couple never lived together, never shared a home, and remained apart even under the title of husband and wife.
The petition underscores that there are no children, no pregnancy, no military ties to complicate the matter. Both parties are capable of supporting themselves, the court is told, and maintenance is not sought, nor is it necessary. What remains is the division of assets and debts, modest or otherwise, which the court is asked to distribute fairly.
What emerges from T’era’s filing is not simply the claim that her marriage is irretrievably broken, but a pointed acknowledgment that Rico’s behavior makes cohabitation unreasonable. For her, there is no path toward reconciliation. The petition also carries a personal request: that her maiden name, Stokes, be restored, allowing her to shed the briefest chapter of marriage and reclaim a prior identity.
Filed on September 23, 2025, the case enters the docket as an unfulfilled promise—an attempt to formalize separation from a bond that existed in law but never in life.
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