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he paperwork is procedural, deliberate, almost austere in its language, yet it sketches the outline of a relationship that has already traveled some distance through the courts. Byron Housten has asked the Circuit Court of Cook County to take hold of a matter first formalized elsewhere: a parenting plan entered in another state, now brought before an Illinois judge for recognition and future enforcement. The filing arrived in the Domestic Relations Division on February 27, 2026, stamped into the record under case number 2026D001471.
Housten’s petition asks the court to register and enroll a “Parenting Plan” originally entered November 13, 2024, by the District Court of Denver County, Colorado. According to the filing, the parties—Housten and Bianca Solorio—were never married but were involved in a relationship that resulted in the birth of a child. The agreement established in Colorado forms the backbone of the request now presented in Cook County.
The petition states that both parties, along with the child, have since permanently relocated to Cook County, Illinois. It further asserts that none of them has resided in Colorado for more than six months prior to the filing. Housten contends that, given these circumstances, Illinois represents the most appropriate forum for future proceedings related to the existing parenting arrangement.
Invoking provisions of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act and the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, Housten asks the court to register the Colorado parenting plan so that any future litigation—modification, enforcement, or related disputes—may proceed within the Cook County court system. The petition also requests a determination that the Colorado court constitutes an inconvenient forum for the parties moving forward.
Court filings of this sort rarely attempt to narrate the past. They record a sequence of formal steps—an agreement entered in one jurisdiction, a relocation, a petition to place that agreement under a new court’s supervision. In late February, as the year’s administrative rhythms take hold in court dockets across the country, Housten’s filing represents another instance of the system absorbing a family matter that has shifted location but not yet concluded its process.
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