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A marriage that began in optimism more than a decade ago has now moved into the legal language of dissolution. Ethan Hixson filed a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage on September 25, 2025, in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, represented by Nottage and Ward, LLP. He asks the court to formally end his union with Jackson Hixson, citing irreconcilable differences that have led to an irretrievable breakdown of their marriage.
Their story began with a civil union in 2011 and a marriage three years later, in 2014, in Chicago. Over the years, they built a life together, one that includes their eight-year-old son, born in January 2017. Ethan’s petition underscores his request to be designated the parent with the majority of parenting time, while proposing that both parents share responsibility for their child’s support, medical needs, education, and activities.
The filing asserts that Jackson is capable of supporting himself and asks that he be barred from receiving maintenance, either temporarily or permanently. It also calls for the equitable division of marital property and debts, with Ethan retaining his non-marital assets. Each party, the petition states, should bear their own legal fees.
Beneath the procedural language lies the story of a relationship that could not be reconciled despite the effort. What remains is a focus on the well-being of their child and the equitable division of what they once built together, as the marriage moves toward its formal end in the same city where it began.
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