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In a courtroom tucked within the layered complexity of Cook County, Illinois, Sara C. Star filed for dissolution of her 36-year marriage to James A. Star on May 19, 2025. Their union, solemnized in Chicago in December 1988, had long since drifted beyond reconciliation. Sara, now 65, described the marriage as irretrievably broken, the culmination of irreconcilable differences that no longer warranted revival.
With three adult children and decades of shared history, the couple had—years earlier—attempted to shape the contours of their relationship through a prenuptial agreement signed just days before their wedding. That agreement, and a subsequent marital settlement finalized the same day as the petition, are now central to how they will disentangle their lives. Both documents, entered into freely, were affirmed by both parties as valid and enforceable, structured to shield their private affairs from public scrutiny.
Sara, represented by attorneyS Karen L. Levine and Melissa B. Pryor of Miller Shakman Levine & Feldman LLP, is not seeking maintenance, nor is James. Each is said to possess sufficient assets and income to maintain the lifestyle established during their marriage. The filing does not request court intervention beyond affirming what has already been decided: that they will go their separate ways, with the legal system merely witnessing their quiet, contractual goodbye.
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