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January is supposed to be quiet—snow-muted streets, fresh calendars, the low hum of second chances. But some endings choose the new year as their witness. In Cook County, Illinois, January 13, 2026 was stamped into the court record as the day Rony Ottoniel Gregorio asked a judge to bring a marriage to its final chapter.

Rony, 48, and Nijbe Maritza Gonzalez Molina, 46, were married on April 3, 2009, in Chicago, a city that knows how long stories can stretch before they finally snap. The petition says they have lived separate and apart for more than six months, long enough for silence to become routine and for reconciliation to feel less like hope and more like a rumor. What remains, according to the filing, is an irretrievable breakdown—no repairs left that would hold.

There are no children in this account, no custody schedules or midnight exchanges. Both parties are employed or employable, capable of supporting themselves, and the petition asks that neither receive maintenance from the other. The material life of the marriage has already been divided: marital property equitably split, marital debts assigned to the names that carry them, non-marital property returned to its respective owner. There is no marital real estate to argue over, no shared house echoing with unfinished conversations.

Filed through attorney Alejandra I. Vilchis, the petition asks the court to enter a judgment dissolving the marriage; confirm the equitable division of marital property already completed; assign each party their individual non-marital property; bar maintenance to either spouse; require each party to remain responsible for debts in their own name; and grant any further relief the court deems equitable and just.

January keeps its promises to beginnings. It also keeps the ones about endings.

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