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In a quiet corner of Forest Park, Illinois, a woman named Julia Weiss has stepped forward to untangle more than two decades of shared history. On May 14, 2025, she filed a petition in the Circuit Court of Cook County to dissolve her marriage to Julian Llanas, a man she once walked alongside since their wedding in Chicago on September 11, 2002.
Theirs is not a story of rage or scandal, but rather one of distance—of lives that diverged while staying rooted in the same soil. Julia, now 45, survives on social security disability. Her husband, Julian, 50, is employed. Though no children tie them together, years of companionship and accumulation of shared and separate assets remain.
Represented by her counsel at Caesar & Bender, LLP, Julia asserts the marriage has suffered irreconcilable differences, with all attempts at reconciliation exhausted and deemed impractical. They’ve lived apart for more than six months. In her petition, she pleads for fair division of property, maintenance support due to her limited financial means, and assistance with legal fees. She also requests that Julian be barred from seeking maintenance from her and that her non-marital assets be protected.
There are no dramatic proclamations here—only the quiet unraveling of what once was, a petition not just for legal relief, but for closure. A line is being drawn, not out of bitterness, but as a measure of survival and dignity.
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