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Paperwork, quiet and procedural, marked the beginning of the case bearing the names Maria Monzerrat Carrillo and Gustavo Valencia-Mascote in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. The petition for dissolution of marriage was entered into the court record March 3, 2026, setting out the brief outline of a union that began only a few years earlier and is now formally before the court for review.
Carrillo, 35, states in the filing that the marriage took place March 29, 2023, in Cook County, Illinois, within the United States. The respondent, Valencia-Mascote, is listed as 54. Both parties are identified as residents of Illinois, and the filing notes that the respondent maintains an address in Chicago.
The petition describes a marriage that, according to the filing, has been separated since January 1, 2025. Carrillo states that irreconcilable differences caused the irretrievable breakdown of the marriage. The document further indicates that no children were born to or adopted during the marriage and that neither party is expecting a child.
In outlining the financial circumstances presented to the court, the petition reports no debts remaining from the marriage and no personal property or bank accounts identified as jointly acquired during the union. It also indicates that neither party owns real estate related to the marriage and that neither spouse holds pension or retirement accounts identified in the filing. Carrillo states that both individuals are able to support themselves and asks that neither party be awarded maintenance.
With the filing now recorded, the matter moves into the ordinary course of civil proceedings, where documentation, timelines, and court review shape the next steps. In cases such as this, the petition itself marks only the opening stage of a legal process intended to settle the formal end of a marriage and establish the record from which a final judgment may eventually follow.
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