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Court records in Cook County show that Jennifer Dodd has initiated a divorce case against Nicholas Sandoval, filing a petition for dissolution of marriage in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. The filing was recorded March 5, 2026.
According to the petition, Jennifer Dodd states that she has lived in Illinois for longer than ninety days, meeting the residency requirement to bring the case in state court. Nicholas Sandoval is also identified as residing in Chicago, Illinois. The document lists the couple’s marriage date as December 31, 2022, in Berrien County, Michigan.
The petition indicates that the parties have been separated since February 7, 2026. It further states that irreconcilable differences have led to an irretrievable breakdown of the marriage. The filing specifies that no children were born to or adopted by the parties during the marriage and that neither party is pregnant.
Jennifer Dodd asks the court to enter a judgment dissolving the marriage and to divide marital property and debts in a fair manner. The petition also requests that each party retain their non-marital property and be responsible for their own non-marital debts, with maintenance to be awarded if appropriate under the court’s determination.
For now, the filing marks the first formal step in a process that moves through responses, notices, and court consideration. As with many domestic relations cases, the record begins with a brief petition that outlines the facts as presented to the court and sets the framework for the legal decisions that will follow.
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