1-Year Marriage Ends: Alejandro Martinez Files for Divorce from Veronica Martinez in Cook County, Citing Irreconcilable Differences on August 14, 2024

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In the labyrinthine lanes of Cicero and Chicago—where the architecture sags with stories, and two-flat brick buildings breathe in generations—a marriage, fourteen years deep, is now unraveling in the fluorescent pulse of Cook County’s Domestic Relations Division. On May 30, 2025, Rodrigo M. Gordillo Cuzco filed a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage against Maria Guadalupe Roman. Yes! The papers are in! Filed! Cook County! The gavel hadn’t dropped yet, but the machinery had begun to hum.

Rodrigo, 40, self-employed, not lounging but working, hustling! And Maria, 34, working woman, gainfully employed, their addresses still bound by the same roof — but split in sentiment since April 1, 2024. Three children, three! Alan, 13; Abigail, 7; and Aaron, barely toddling at 1. Rodrigo, represented by attorney Guadalupe Sandoval of Oak Park, is pushing for joint parental decision-making but wants the children to primarily reside with Maria—with fair parenting time, mind you, and child support that fits Illinois guidelines.

Oh, and the properties! There’s the Cicero residence and another at 5542 S. Carpenter in Chicago—marital assets under the scrutiny of Section 503. Rodrigo claims his non-marital property and wants it locked tight in his column—no share, no split, just his.

And maintenance? None! Not from him, no sir! Maria, he claims, is perfectly able to support herself.

So here it is: a domestic epic playing out in docket numbers and digital filings, unfolding not in whispers but in bold, legal type.

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