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Leslie Matthews, a forty-five-year-old nurse, stood at the edge of a fractured life and filed for divorce from Timothy Martin, sixty-eight and tethered to broadcast tech, in Cook County’s Circuit Court, Illinois. The date was February 27, 2025, and with Nicole M. Scott of NMS Family Law Firm by her side, she laid bare a marriage born June 23, 2018, in Chicago—a union now gutted by irreconcilable differences. They’d shared a roof but lived apart within it for over six months, a silent schism meeting Illinois’ statutory mark.
One child, Cole Martin, six, binds them still, born of their brief convergence. No others came, no pregnancy looms. Leslie’s claim is lean: split the marital haul—real estate, personal goods, debts—down the middle, keep her non-marital stake intact. She asks no maintenance from Timothy, an “able-bodied” man she deems flush enough to stand alone, barred from seeking her support, his legal fees his own burden. No rival petitions shadow this one; Cook County holds the sole thread.
This filing, etched into the record on February 27, 2025, carries no flourish—just the cold weight of a woman carving out her exit, a child’s future in the balance, and a marriage reduced to ash.
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