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In the crowded heart of Cook County, a petition quietly entered the public record on October 2, 2025. Jennifer Smith, 44, through her attorney Jacqueline McClellan of Sterling Hughes, LLC, asked the court to dissolve her marriage to Wesley Phillips, 55, marking the formal unraveling of a union that began on December 28, 2019. What was once a marriage built on shared ambitions and ordinary faith in permanence now stands at a distance, undone by what the law calls “irreconcilable differences.”
The petition outlines a story familiar in rhythm but deeply personal in tone — two people who have ceased living together as husband and wife for more than six months, acknowledging that reconciliation is neither likely nor practical. Between them is one child, six years old, for whom both parents agree to share joint parental responsibilities, a quiet testament to the parts of the partnership that endure even when love’s scaffolding collapses.
Both Smith and Phillips are employed full-time, each capable of self-support. Neither seeks maintenance; neither wishes to burden the other with attorney’s fees. The petition instead turns toward fairness — the equitable division of property and debts, the setting of child support, and reimbursement for contributions made during the brief marriage. The document closes, as these petitions often do, not in bitterness but in precision — the legal punctuation of a shared life turned separate.
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