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Fifteen years ago, under the canopy of late August sun in Park Ridge, Danielle and Mathew Scarpelli entered a promise that now comes before the courts in the form of a petition—plain, procedural, and filed on July 24, 2025, in Cook County.
Danielle, now 44, tells the court through her attorney Gail M. O’Connor of O’Connor Family Law, P.C., that irreconcilable differences have settled into permanence. That reconciliation is no longer a pursuit, but a memory. Since their union in 2010, the Scarpellis have built a life that includes two daughters—Madison, age 13, and Mila, age 11—whose futures now must be reimagined across two households.
She seeks primary residential custody of the children, though she proposes shared parenting responsibilities. Support—emotional, educational, and financial—must follow. She requests child support to cover not only the basic necessities but also the children’s medical, extracurricular, and educational expenses. Danielle also asks the court for both temporary and long-term maintenance, noting that she delayed her own income growth during the marriage.
The marital home, though disputed, is claimed as her non-marital asset. Mathew, she argues, is capable of supporting himself and covering his own legal fees—along with hers. The petition does not speak in anger but in finality. A partnership has ended; what remains is the fair division of what it built.
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