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A marriage that began in late winter of 1983 now stands before the court for formal conclusion. Patricia Ehas has petitioned for dissolution from Steven J Ehas, placing their long union under review in the Domestic Relations Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County. The filing was entered into the record on February 13, 2026.
The petition states that the parties were lawfully married on February 26, 1983, in Des Plaines, Illinois, where the marriage was registered. It further represents that the petitioner has maintained residency in Illinois for more than ninety days preceding the commencement of the action and that no other dissolution or legal separation proceeding is pending elsewhere. The parties separated on or about December 24, 2018. Five children were born of the marriage, all of whom have reached the age of majority, and the petitioner is not presently pregnant.
Irreconcilable differences are cited as the cause of the irretrievable breakdown of the marriage. The pleading asserts that prior efforts at reconciliation have failed and that further attempts would be impracticable and not in the parties’ best interests. It outlines the existence of marital property subject to equitable division and identifies non-marital property that the petitioner seeks to have confirmed as her sole and exclusive property.
The petitioner also requests temporary and permanent maintenance, asks that the respondent be barred from claiming maintenance, and seeks an award of attorney’s fees and costs. Filed in mid-February, at a point in the calendar when households often reassess their footing for the year ahead, the action marks a procedural step shaped not by declaration but by statute—an orderly submission of private change to the structure and timetable of the court.
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