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The matter was filed on July 23, 2025, in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, and with it began the procedural end of a nearly five-year marriage. Jason Pierce, 41, represented by attorney Nina Kelly of Sterling Hughes, LLC, is seeking dissolution of his marriage to Karla Pierce, 47, citing irreconcilable differences as the cause.
According to the petition, the couple married on September 12, 2020, in Cook County and have since endured a gradual but definitive breakdown in their relationship. The court record notes that reconciliation has not only failed, but that any further effort toward it would be, in the words of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, “impractical” and against the best interests of both parties.
They have lived apart for more than six months—statutory grounds for dissolution in Illinois—and have no children, nor any claims of current pregnancy. Both are employed, self-sustaining, and each party has agreed to forego maintenance.
There are marital properties and liabilities to be divided, though no allegations of misconduct or dispute appear in the filings. Each party requests that their non-marital property be returned to them, and that all attorney fees be paid individually.
No concurrent litigation exists, and no request has been made for temporary relief. What emerges from the record is not a bitter unraveling but a clean procedural exit from a union whose terms, however once promising, no longer hold.
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