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In the labyrinthine hush of Cook County’s domestic courts, Bridget F. Forbes has placed before the law her Petition for Dissolution of Marriage against Wilburn L. Rhoades III, filed on October 23, 2025. The marriage, begun in the pale winter of January 9, 2010, in Chicago, now stands exhausted—its language of love worn down to the procedural cadence of statute and petition.
Through Attorney Daniel J. Florey of Daniel J. Florey P.C., Forbes asks the court to declare her union with Rhoades irretrievably broken and to restore balance to the shape of her days. Five children—born between 2010 and 2021—anchor the narrative of this family, and it is for them that she pleads the court’s attention. She seeks majority parenting time, decision-making authority for health, education, extracurricular, and religious matters, and an order of child support reflective of their shared responsibility.
Forbes requests maintenance under Illinois law, citing that her income no longer sustains the standard of living once common to the marriage, while her husband remains able-bodied and capable of self-support. She prays also for an equitable division of marital property and debts, the assignment of her non-marital assets, and the option to reclaim her maiden name.
What remains of a fifteen-year marriage now moves through channels of equity and formality. Where once affection framed the story, now fairness must do. The petition is less an ending than a recognition—a quiet reckoning of what time, distance, and divergence have already undone.
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