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The courthouse filings in Cook County tell a story that is less about paper and ink and more about a slow unraveling of a life once shared. Christina Babinski, through her attorney Nicole Spicer of Taradash Given, P.C., lodged a petition on September 24, 2025, seeking the dissolution of her twenty-five–year marriage to Maciej Babinski. They married on March 20, 2000, in Urbana, Illinois, and built a household that included two children, now both school-aged, navigating the precarious edge of adolescence.
The petition does not linger on sentiment—it lays out, instead, the cold architecture of an ending. Christina and Maciej have lived apart for at least six months, the walls between them no longer just physical but etched into the marriage itself. The filing speaks of irreconcilable differences, a phrase that sounds clinical but hides the wreckage of days spent trying, failing, and trying again. Reconciliation is no longer an option.
Christina asks the court to dissolve the marriage and divide the life they built: property, debts, the trappings of two and a half decades together. She requests adequate maintenance, citing financial resources that no longer meet her needs. She also prays for a parenting plan that protects the best interests of their children—liberal parenting time for both if cooperation holds, or sole decision-making if not.
Behind the legal language lies the quiet truth: a long marriage reduced to filings, hearings, and decrees. For the court, the matter is about fairness. For the Babinskis, it is the unsettling work of saying goodbye.
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