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It was in February 2025 that Dennis Korneff left the home he shared with his wife of nearly 14 years, Andrea Davis-Korneff, and their twelve-year-old son. The final unraveling of their marriage, Andrea says, had long been underway. On April 18, 2025, she formally petitioned the Circuit Court of Cook County for dissolution of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences that had led to an irretrievable breakdown.
Filed through her attorneys at Davis Friedman, LLP, Andrea’s petition outlines a life lived in proximity but increasingly apart. Married on June 26, 2011, in Oakbrook, Illinois, the couple built a family and accumulated shared assets—vehicles, retirement accounts, furniture—but now face dividing them. Andrea also claimed non-marital property of her own.
Their shared parenting responsibilities, however, have shifted. Since Dennis moved out, Andrea has exercised nearly full-time parenting over their son and seeks a formal majority of parenting time, while also proposing joint decision-making authority. With the marital condo, owned informally by Andrea’s parents, soon to be sold, she asks the court for permission to relocate to a new home in Naperville being built by her family—housing she otherwise cannot afford on her own.
Both parties are employed and have agreed not to seek maintenance from each other. The petition asks that each pay their own legal fees and contribute equitably to their child’s needs.
In her final request, Andrea asks the court not just for a dissolution, but for the permission to begin a new chapter—with her son—someplace else.
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