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The quiet machinery of Cook County’s Domestic Relations Division stirred again when, on November 7, 2025, Jackson Tomos, formerly known as Jordyn Tomos, filed his petition to bring a decisive close to a marriage that had long drifted into silence. Acting pro se, Tomos stepped forward without counsel, guided only by the clarity of his own decision and the statute that permits such endings when reconciliation has yielded nothing but repetition.
The petition outlines a marriage beginning on September 4, 2019, in Multnomah County, Oregon—an early union now stretched thin across states and years. Tomos, now 28 and residing in Chicago, recounts that he and Maureen Sullivan, 30, have lived separate and apart since roughly 2020, surpassing the statutory threshold for dissolution. No children anchor the pair to shared obligations, and the respondent is not pregnant.
What remains is a modest estate of personal property and debts, accumulated during their years of marriage. Tomos requests that the court award him his non-marital property, grant him an equitable share of marital property, and issue any further relief deemed just. The petition rests on the ground of irreconcilable differences—an acknowledgment that the marriage has broken down beyond recovery, and that further attempts to mend it would only prolong what both parties already know.
The filing, lodged at the Daley Center, asks the court to trace the lines of closure with fairness, concluding a union that began with promise but now seeks only a dignified end.
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