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January often arrives quietly, carrying the promise of adjustment rather than transformation. In Cook County, Illinois, as the calendar edged into its first full stretch of the year, Adam Zoll placed his marriage into the careful language of the court. The Petition for Dissolution of Marriage was filed on January 5, 2026, a moment close enough to the year’s beginning to feel provisional, as if the ending itself were still learning how to exist.
Adam Zoll and Elyse Fineman were married on October 23, 1999, in Seattle, Washington, a union that spanned more than two decades and crossed seasons of shared life. The petition describes irreconcilable differences that have worn the marriage thin, leaving reconciliation impracticable and the breakdown irretrievable. Their two children are now adults, no longer requiring the court’s direction, allowing the focus to rest solely on the couple themselves.
Through his attorney, Lynn Weisberg of Gardiner Koch Weisberg & Wrona, Adam asks the court to enter a judgment dissolving the bonds of matrimony. He requests that both parties be deemed capable of supporting themselves and that maintenance be waived entirely, barring either from seeking spousal support now or in the future. The petition further seeks an equitable division of marital property and marital debts, alongside the assignment of each party’s respective non-marital property.
Adam also asks that each party bear responsibility for his or her own attorney’s fees and costs, without contribution from the other, and requests any additional relief the court finds just and proper. In a month devoted to beginnings, the filing reads instead as a measured reckoning—an acknowledgment that some histories conclude not with drama, but with quiet resolve.
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