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In Cook County, a marriage that once began in promise has come to rest before the courts. On September 22, 2025, Terri Griffin, fifty-two, filed her Petition for Dissolution of Marriage against Timothy Griffin, fifty, in the Circuit Court of Cook County. She is represented by attorney Rhonda J. Thompson of The Law Office of Rhonda J. Thompson in Tinley Park.
The Griffins were wed on October 24, 2003, in Des Plaines, Illinois. Over more than two decades, their union carried them through the raising of two children, R.G., born in December 2006, and M.G., born in August 2013. Terri affirms that Illinois is the children’s home state, and that no other court proceedings involving them exist.
But the petition speaks plainly of the collapse: irreconcilable differences, a breakdown that attempts at reconciliation could not repair. What remains is the division of property—both marital and non-marital—as well as the arrangement of parental responsibilities and parenting time. Terri asserts that her own non-marital property should be preserved, while the marital estate should be divided in fair and equitable terms.
Her filing leaves little doubt of her course: she seeks a judgment dissolving the bonds of marriage, allocation of custody and parenting rights for their two children, recognition of her non-marital assets, and an equitable share of the property acquired together. The petition stands as both a formal end and a stern record of a life once shared, now submitted to the law for final disentanglement.
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