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It was not with acrimony but with resolute finality that Jacqueline Weaver petitioned the Cook County Circuit Court on April 22, 2025, to dissolve her five-year marriage to Michael Cunningham. Filed through her attorney, Jeffrey R. Esser of the Law Office of Jeffrey R. Esser, the case reflects a quietly unraveling union marked less by discord than by exhaustion—by a recognition that whatever glue once held them together had long since dried and cracked.
The couple, both long-time Illinois residents, were wed on June 20, 2020, in Chicago. Yet the bond has since frayed beyond repair due to what Jacqueline describes as irreconcilable differences. The parties have lived apart for more than six months, and efforts at reconciliation have, she affirms, been unavailing and impractical.
Notably, the petition presents no dispute over property or support. Each party is described as self-sufficient, with no request for maintenance from either side. They have no children, no entangling dependencies, and no pending litigation elsewhere. Marital and non-marital assets have already been divided to mutual satisfaction, and neither seeks maintenance.
Jacqueline requests a formal judgment dissolving the marriage, a permanent bar on spousal support, and the freedom to resume her maiden name, Jacqueline Cramer. In a legal system often crowded with combative cases, this petition offers a model of clarity, closure, and restrained emotion—a mutual parting, simply formalized.
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