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The end of a long union often unfolds not in public spectacle but in paperwork — precise, restrained, and quietly devastating. In Cook County, Illinois, Robin Bobo has petitioned the court to dissolve her 17-year marriage to Darnell Bobo. The filing, entered on October 9, 2025, through her attorney Aasim Cunningham of Cunningham Lopez LLP, sets out a familiar narrative of “irreconcilable differences” — the legal phrase that masks a thousand private reasons.
Married on June 7, 2008, in Chicago, Robin, 40, and Darnell, 39, built a life together — a home on South Langley Avenue, two children born of the marriage, and the steady routines of working life. She serves as Director of Human Relations at a retirement community, while he teaches in the Gary School District. Yet behind the surface symmetry, the foundation has given way.
Robin asserts the marriage is irretrievably broken, beyond reconciliation. Both spouses are self-sufficient and seek no maintenance. She asks for the majority of parenting time with their two children, while sharing joint decision-making with Darnell. The petition also calls for an equitable division of marital property, debts, and business interests — a legal untangling of nearly two decades of shared life.
What remains is for the court to divide what can be divided and confirm what is already certain: that two people once bound by vows and years now stand on separate paths, their dissolution recorded quietly in the archives of Cook County.
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