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Amid the festive whirl of February’s Valentine’s month, a quieter drama played out in Cook County, Illinois, where the bonds of matrimony faced a stern reckoning. On February 19, 2025, Maureen V. Boughey, a 33-year-old actor from La Grange, filed a petition to dissolve her marriage to Dylan J. Hackworth, a 35-year-old actor now residing in Marshall, Michigan. Their union, solemnized on October 31, 2020, in the same county, had crumbled under irreconcilable differences, leaving no room for repair. Represented by Elizabeth Lidd Factor of the Law Office of Elizabeth Lidd Factor, P.C., Maureen’s filing was a meticulous cataloguing of a life once shared, now methodically divided.
No children tethered them, but a canine companion, Banshee, adopted solely by Maureen before the marriage, stood as a point of contention—she claimed it as her non-marital property. The couple’s assets were modest: separate incomes, vehicles, and furniture Dylan held onto, with no real estate or joint debts to complicate the split. Both, self-sufficient, sought no maintenance, each bearing their own legal costs.
This filing, lodged as hearts still lingered on romance, revealed a starkly different narrative: a marriage’s end, executed with precision and a touch of melancholy. In the shadow of love’s celebrations, Maureen V. Boughey drew a line, seeking not just divorce but a restoration of her solitary domain.
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