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A marriage can endure years on the strength of habit alone, until one day habit proves insufficient. That reckoning appears to arrive for Jillian S. Funk and Chad G. Funk, whose marriage is now before the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, following a petition for dissolution filed on December 1, 2025.
The couple married on December 1, 2012, in Chicago, building a shared domestic life that stretched across more than a decade. In her verified petition, Jillian Funk asserts that irreconcilable differences have brought about an irretrievable breakdown of the marriage, with reconciliation no longer practical or in the family’s best interests.
Jillian Funk proceeds through counsel Ashley D. Wood of Katz & Stefani, LLC, requesting a judgment dissolving the marriage. The petition reflects an expectation—though not a certainty—that the parties may reach agreement regarding the allocation of parental responsibilities and parenting time. Should agreement fail, Jillian Funk reserves the right to amend her petition and seek court determination. Child support is requested in accordance with Illinois statutory guidelines.
The petition further seeks a fair and equitable division of marital property and marital debts, along with the award of Jillian Funk’s non-marital property. She asks the court to grant both temporary and permanent maintenance in her favor, citing statutory factors, while expressly requesting that Chad Funk be barred from receiving maintenance from her. Additionally, the petition asks that Chad Funk be ordered to pay his own attorneys’ fees and related costs.
The filing concludes with a request for such further relief as the court deems equitable and just, leaving the final shape of the family’s future to judicial measure rather than shared design.
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