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There are marriages that end not in shouts or slammed doors, but in the quiet arithmetic of years gone by. So it is with Carla Brassil and John Brassil, whose long partnership—begun on May 29, 1994, in Country Club Hills—has now drifted toward its final legal shape. On October 10, 2025, Carla, through her attorney Jill M. Peters of The Law Offices of Jill M. Peters, LLC, filed a Petition for Legal Separation in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.
The filing paints a portrait of a life shared, but long divided. The couple, both residents of Brookfield, have lived apart since September 2021, a period defined by “irreconcilable differences” and an “irretrievable breakdown” of marriage. Once bound by the shared care of an adopted daughter—now emancipated and in college—Carla recalls years spent in part-time work and full-time caretaking. She asks the court to recognize her dependency and grant her medical insurance and maintenance support from John, who remains, the petition notes, in good health and financially self-sufficient.
Beyond the emotional unraveling lies the careful division of property and debts accumulated over three decades. The petition calls for an equitable distribution of marital assets, a fair allocation of liabilities, and the preservation of each party’s non-marital property. Both Carla and John, it appears, are prepared to pay their own legal costs.
And so the petition closes without bitterness, asking simply that the court declare what time has already made clear: that the Brassils’ union has lived out its natural measure.
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