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In the quiet chambers of Cook County’s Domestic Relations Division, another ending was set into motion on April 24, 2025. Anny Rusk, 61, formally petitioned for the dissolution of her marriage to 65-year-old Thomas Corey Simonson, her husband of sixteen years and her neighbor in the same Chicago building.
Their marriage, solemnized on October 4, 2009, had come apart beyond repair. In the filing, Rusk, represented by attorney Anna Markley Bush of Bush & Brady, LLC, declared irreconcilable differences as the cause of the breakdown, emphasizing that all reconciliation efforts had failed and that future attempts would be futile. No children were born or adopted during the marriage, and Rusk confirmed she is not pregnant.
Binding their separation is a premarital agreement they signed before exchanging vows—a contract that waives maintenance for both and sets forth the division of their property and debts. Rusk has asked the court to honor that agreement, seeking an assignment of her non-marital property and an equitable division of marital assets according to its terms.
Now, the case awaits the court’s formal recognition of a reality already lived: two lives once intertwined, now carefully untangling in the quiet aftermath.
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