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The record is spare, almost austere, in what it chooses to say and what it leaves unsaid. A petition entered into the Circuit Court of Cook County carries the names Catlleya Tan Suico and Josh Sta Romana Fernandez, and with them, the formal request to end a marriage that, by the petitioner’s account, has already come apart. The filing bears a timestamp of April 13, 2026, marking the moment the matter moved from private separation into public process.
The marriage itself is recent, dated to December 12, 2024, in Chicago. Within weeks, according to the petition, the parties separated, around January 24, 2025. The document does not dwell on the intervening time. It states only that irreconcilable differences led to an irretrievable breakdown, and that attempts to reconcile have failed, with no expectation that further efforts would succeed.
There are no children identified in the filing, and no shared marital property is alleged to have been acquired during the marriage. The petitioner asserts ownership of certain non-marital property and asks the court to recognize it as such. Both parties are described as capable of supporting themselves, and the petitioner requests that the respondent be barred from seeking maintenance.
The respondent is noted as being outside the United States, with ties to the Philippines, while the petitioner remains in Illinois. That geographic distance is presented without commentary, one more fact among many, recorded but not interpreted. The petition confines itself to what can be established and what is being asked of the court: dissolution, allocation, and closure under statute.
What follows will not be decided in a single motion. The filing initiates a sequence governed by notice, response, and judicial determination. In that progression, the language of the petition—measured and declarative—serves as a starting point, one that frames the issues without resolving them, leaving the outcome to unfold within the court’s structured timeline.
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