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They’d been married a long time. Theodore Brown and Karen Brown stood before each other on March 17, 2009, in Chicago, and for years carried on with the work of a life together. No children came of it. Nothing to anchor them in that way. The years still built a history—houses, accounts, debts, all the ordinary things that pile up between two people.
By August 27, 2025, it came to this: Theodore, now 63, filing in Cook County for the end of the marriage. His petition, written and signed through his attorney, J. Samuel Worley of the Law Offices of J. Samuel Worley, LLC, speaks in the plain terms of the court. Irreconcilable differences. Six months living apart. No chance of repair.
He lives in Cook County. He is not working, living instead on disability. She is 55, working full-time, living in Hammond, Indiana. They can both provide for themselves. Neither is asking for support from the other. Neither is seeking to drag the other into more than what is required.
The petition asks the court to divide what’s shared and to leave untouched what is not. Property and debts to be split. Separate belongings returned. Attorney’s fees, maintenance—none of it wanted from the other. Just a request to dissolve the bond, to put it down cleanly, as if all that had gone before could be folded away into papers and signatures.
In the end, what’s left is a date, August 27, 2025, when one of them put it to writing that the marriage was finished.
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