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The new year in Cook County, Illinois, began with a quiet reckoning inside the family court system. On January 26, 2026, Mary Ellen Moore, through her attorneys Lynn M. Hickey of Hutchison, Anders & Hickey, filed a petition for dissolution of her marriage to Kevin Kenealy. The marriage, which began on December 3, 2016, in La Grange, had produced two children, S.K. and C.K., whose lives are now caught between the routines of two households.
The filing lays out a vision of parental responsibility and financial accountability. Mary Ellen requests sole authority over major decisions in education, health, religion, and extracurricular activities, while parenting time is to be shared substantially equally. Both parents are to contribute to child support, health insurance, uncovered medical expenses, child care, and educational and extracurricular costs.
The petition further addresses property and financial matters: marital assets, including the family home at 14307 Wooded Path Lane in Orland Park, vehicles, bank accounts, and retirement plans, are to be divided equitably. Non-marital property is to be returned to its respective owner, and marital debts apportioned justly. Both parties are barred from receiving maintenance and are responsible for their own legal costs, though Mary Ellen reserves the right to seek attorney’s fees if litigation is prolonged.
Underlying the legal language is the acknowledgment of irreconcilable differences and an irretrievable breakdown of the marriage, with six months of prior separation noted. The petition is both a ledger of responsibilities and a quiet bid for stability, attempting to preserve the children’s daily lives amid the dissolution, and to resolve financial and personal entanglements with fairness and clarity.
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