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After fifteen years of marriage, John Nugent turned to the Circuit Court of Cook County seeking dissolution from his wife, Allison Joy Nugent. The petition, filed on October 24, 2025, through his attorney, John A. Conniff of The Law Offices of John A. Conniff, sets forth a narrative as familiar as it is solemn: a relationship once marked by promise now unspooled by irreconcilable differences.
The couple, both forty-three and residents of Chicago, married on July 4, 2010, and share two young children, ages eleven and nine. The petition paints a portrait of a marriage whose seams have quietly frayed, with John requesting that he be granted the majority of parenting time and the authority to make decisions concerning the children’s health, education, and religious upbringing. His filing also asks that both parents contribute equally to their children’s financial needs — from healthcare and schooling to the smaller, daily obligations that come with raising a family.
John acknowledges the shared history of assets and debts accrued through years of cohabitation — the furniture, retirement accounts, and pieces of life collected along the way — and asks for a fair division of all that remains. No request for maintenance is made; both, it seems, are capable of standing alone. The petition closes with a muted finality, recognizing that reconciliation would be neither practical nor kind. It is not a story of blame, only of the quiet courage it takes to end what one day began in love.
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