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January has a way of insisting on honesty. The calendar flips, expectations reset, and what could once be endured begins to feel heavier under the weight of a new year. For Anna Dominiak, that reckoning arrived not with fireworks or resolutions, but with paperwork. On December 31, 2025, as the final hours of the year settled quietly over Cook County, she filed a petition for dissolution of marriage against Peter Malek, marking a deliberate break between what was and what can no longer be sustained.
The petition outlines a marriage that began in Chicago in September 2017 and now stands defined by irreconcilable differences and an irretrievable breakdown. The parties share one child, Audrey Malek, age twelve, whose stability anchors much of the relief sought. Anna asks the court to grant joint parental decision-making responsibilities, while requiring Peter to pay child support in accordance with statutory guidelines and to contribute equitably to their child’s educational, medical, dental, and extracurricular expenses.
Beyond parenting, the petition seeks a clear accounting of the marriage itself. Anna requests an equitable division of marital property, recognition and assignment of each party’s non-marital property, and an order requiring Peter to assume an equitable share of marital debts while remaining solely responsible for his individual obligations. She further asks that Peter be barred from receiving maintenance, while also requesting that he be ordered to pay maintenance to her, consistent with the standard of living established during the marriage.
Filed through attorney Sabrina Karakaya of Kogut & Wilson, L.L.C., the petition also seeks contribution to Anna’s attorney’s fees and costs, and any further relief the court deems just. In the stark light of a year about to turn, the filing reads less like an ending than an insistence: that clarity, fairness, and forward motion still matter.
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