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There is a particular stillness to a marriage that has outlived its meaning. It lingers in the air between two people who no longer speak the same emotional language, even as they share the same roof. For Titania Harris, that silence had stretched too long. On March 31, 2025, she placed her signature on a petition for dissolution of marriage, filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, quietly drawing the legal curtain on a marriage that had endured since September 26, 1997.
For nearly 28 years, Titania and Thomas J. Harris bore the weight and wonder of marriage—raising a child, sharing a life, surviving ordinary seasons. But by September 9, 2024, they ceased to live as husband and wife, though geography had yet to catch up with the emotional rift. They continued to reside in the same home, strangers in the familiar.
The petition, brought forward through Attorney Jena M. Noel of Dillard and Noel, tells of irreconcilable differences—not in dramatic terms, but as a quiet fact. Titania claims the marriage has broken beyond repair, that every attempt at reconciliation has failed, and that any further effort would be senseless.
She asks the court to recognize what’s already real: that the marriage is over. She requests her rightful share of their joint estate—house, vehicles, financial accounts—and protection of the property she brought into the union. She asks, too, for maintenance, acknowledging a financial divide that the court may be called to bridge.
No children remain in need of care. Only the echo of long years lived together—and now, apart.
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