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The paperwork arrived with the quiet efficiency of a weekday morning docket. At 11:52 a.m. on February 18, 2026, the clerk stamped the petition in the Domestic Relations Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County, opening case number 2026D001180: EDDIE WINTERS v. TERRI D. WINTERS.
In the filing, EDDIE WINTERS states that he has lived in Illinois for more than ninety days and resides in Cook County. His spouse, TERRI D. WINTERS, is likewise identified as an Illinois resident of more than ninety days, with an address listed in Chicago. The parties were married on November 14, 2023, in Cook County. They have been separated since August 8, 2025.
The petition indicates there are no children born or adopted during the marriage who require support, and neither party is pregnant. It affirms that irreconcilable differences have caused the irretrievable breakdown of the marriage. No prior dissolution action is noted as pending elsewhere.
In his request for relief, EDDIE WINTERS asks the court to enter a judgment of dissolution, to allow each party to retain non-marital property, and to divide marital property and debts in a fair manner. He further seeks assignment of non-marital debts to the respective parties and an award of maintenance, if appropriate, along with any other relief the court deems proper.
February filings often signal decisions reached months earlier, when separation has already redefined daily life. The petition does not linger on that history; it reduces it to dates and declarations. From here, the matter proceeds through notice, response, and hearing—steps by which a private union is formally concluded within the structure of the law.
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