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Ah yes, the bright fluorescent lights of the Cook County Circuit Court flicker like halogen confessionals, and on June 18, 2025, Iyad Kashkeesh, age thirty-four, stepped in—not with a whisper but a document, a declaration, a reckoning! Filed at 4:22 PM, timed like a train arrival, not a second too soon, not a moment too late. The marriage to Emanuela Pappa, thirty-three, once a gleaming Bridgeview promise back in September 2016, now worn thin by six months of separate lives, unshared space, and what he calls irreconcilable differences—that familiar courtroom phrase dressed up in layers of unspoken things.
They still live under the same Des Plaines roof—oh, the irony of proximity and absence—and have one child, one-year-old Zayn. Iyad, represented by Caesar & Bender, LLP, claims he’s the fit parent, the one with a grip on school choices, doctor visits, and bedtime routines. He wants the majority of parenting time. He says Emanuela has let marital funds vanish—poof!—and those need to come back, pronto.
No support agreements yet. No custody agreements. No split of assets. But there’s a home, retirement plans, investments—oh, there’s something to divide all right. Iyad wants more than half. He says he earned it. He wants no maintenance to flow from him to her, only fairness, only justice, only the scales to lean, just slightly, in his direction.
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