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On May 30, 2025, the Circuit Court of Cook County received a petition whose surface civility belied months, perhaps years, of private discontent. Amy M. Omi, 46, filed for dissolution of her 17-year marriage to Mark I. Omi, 47, through attorney Joseph J. Klein of Klein, Daday, Aretos & O’Donoghue, LLC. The legal groundwork was methodical, the facts laid out in plain terms. But beneath that was a narrative of unraveling trust, unequal burdens, and diverging futures.
The couple married on August 10, 2007, in Estes Park, Colorado. Their union produced two children, both minors. Amy, employed and residing in Lyons, seeks primary decision-making authority and custody, asserting it is in the children’s best interests. The filing proposes that Mark retain scheduled parenting time, along with financial responsibility for child support—temporary and permanent.
Amy’s petition further claims she lacks the resources to shoulder legal costs and asks that Mark, with allegedly sufficient means, pay for both sides’ legal fees. She contends their accumulated marital debt should be split equitably and that her non-marital property be protected from division.
The petition is explicit: Amy is not pregnant, no other dissolution case is pending elsewhere, and reconciliation is neither practical nor advisable. The request includes barring Mark from any claim to maintenance. The filing, now docketed as Case No. 2025D003847, was formally entered by Clerk Mariyana T. Spyropoulos. Now the machinery of family court grinds forward—quiet, deliberate, and unsparing.
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