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December in Chicago carries a certain civic hypocrisy: storefronts preach goodwill while the courts, dutiful as ever, catalog human disappointment with bureaucratic calm. Against this seasonal backdrop, Mya Gaston delivered her petition for dissolution of marriage to the Circuit Court of Cook County on December 11, 2025, a date close enough to Christmas to make the contrast unavoidable. Bells rang elsewhere. Here, the record spoke plainly.
Mya Gaston and Alex Mackey, both twenty-two, were married on March 19, 2025, in Chicago, a union that barely outlived the spring. By July 25, they were living separate and apart, the optimism of early vows replaced by what the petition calls irreconcilable differences and an irretrievable breakdown. Reconciliation, it notes with legal finality, has failed and would be impracticable to pursue further.
The petition is notable for what it does not ask for as much as what it does. There are no children, no real property, and no joint debts to divide. Personal property, acquired during the brief marriage, has already been split to the parties’ satisfaction. Each party is financially self-sufficient, and Mya requests that Alex be forever barred from seeking maintenance from her. Retirement assets, if any exist, are to remain with the individual in whose name they were accrued. Each party, she asks, should be responsible for debts in their own name and for their own attorneys’ fees.
Hovering over the filing is a Plenary Order of Protection entered on October 31, 2025, effective through October 29, 2027—an unsentimental footnote to a short marriage.
Mya is represented by Kattia Gramajo of the Greater Chicago Legal Clinic. The prayer is straightforward: dissolve the marriage, equitably divide anything left unresolved, and grant such further relief as justice requires. Christmas, after all, waits for no one.
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