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A petition for dissolution now rests before the Circuit Court of Cook County, Domestic Relations Division, where case number 2026D000994 records the marriage of Alfredo Fernandez and Jordan Appleseth. The clerk stamped it filed at 11:31 a.m. on February 11, 2026, and with that mark the proceeding began.
The petition states that Alfredo Fernandez is forty-six years of age and has resided in Chicago, Cook County, for at least ninety days preceding the filing. Jordan Appleseth, thirty-five, resides in Oklahoma. They were married on October 3, 2018, in Chicago, where the marriage was registered. No children were born to or adopted during the marriage.
The pleading asserts that irreconcilable differences have caused the irretrievable breakdown of the marriage and that efforts at reconciliation have failed or would be impractical and not in the family’s best interests. It sets out that, before and during the marriage, the parties acquired marital and non-marital property, including real and personal property, financial accounts, and other interests. It further states that marital debts were incurred and should be allocated equitably.
Alfredo Fernandez asks the court to dissolve the marriage and to award him his non-marital property free of any claim by Jordan Appleseth. He seeks an equitable division of marital property and debts and requests that both parties be barred from receiving maintenance from the other. The petition also asks that Jordan Appleseth be responsible for his own attorney’s fees and costs. It affirms that there are no other actions pending between the parties and that neither has been subject to an order of protection involving the other.
In February, when court calendars are newly turned and cases begin to accumulate again, such filings set out the terms by which private arrangements are examined in public record. The statute provides the measure; the court supplies the judgment. Between those two points lies the work of accounting for property and debt, and of marking the formal end of a marriage that began in 2018.
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