A northeast Missouri man accused of shooting and killing his wife, then setting the house they shared on fire, maintains his innocence in circuit court.

Many women who initiate divorce tell me their spouse was more like an unreliable assistant than a true partner, writes psychotherapist Oona Metz. Eventually, after years of unproductive conversations, ...

A Missouri law from the 1970s prevents pregnant women from obtaining a divorce, regardless of their circumstances. Rep. Cecelie Williams is working to change that, particularly for domestic ...

In Missouri, pregnant women can't get a divorce unless they have a custody agreement settled. "No matter how deep the pain, the law kept me legally bound to him," state Rep. Cecelie Williams said ...

The Missouri House unanimously passed a bill Thursday preventing courts from using pregnancy status as a reason not to dissolve a marriage. "It allows women to file for divorce and finalize, if ...

The Missouri House chamber (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications) I’ve written twice about the dangerous misunderstanding that you can’t get a divorce in Missouri while pregnant. Though I’ve ...

What Missouri’s statute requires is that a petition for divorce state whether a party is pregnant. This is bad for reasons I will explain below.

The state's law requires women seeking divorce to disclose whether they're pregnant — and state judges won't finalize divorces during a pregnancy. Texas and Arkansas have similar laws on the books.

State Rep. Ashley Aune, a Democrat, has introduced House Bill 2402 in an effort to allow pregnant women to obtain a divorce in Missouri. Aune, while not optimistic about the bill’s immediate prospects ...

Missouri state Rep. Ashley Aune, a Democrat, introduced legislation in January that would repeal the current statute requiring the inclusion of pregnancy status in a divorce petition.