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In the restless ledger of Cook County, Illinois, a marital contract met its quiet dissolution on February 21, 2025, as Valentine’s Day faded into a distant echo of misplaced romance. Christopher Borcoman filed for divorce from Beth Borcoman in the Circuit Court, a calculated unwind of a union begun on September 30, 2016. With Rebecca Walsh of The Muller Firm, Ltd. as his legal draftsman, Christopher framed the end of an eight-year partnership, its collapse rooted in irreconcilable differences too deep to reconcile.

Both Cook County residents for over ninety days, they stood as independent agents—no children to anchor the equation, no maintenance to blur the division. Their marriage had amassed assets and a whisper of debt, a balance sheet Christopher sought to split equitably, each retaining their non-marital stakes like separate accounts. The filing was austere, a no-frills transaction eschewing emotional weight for the clarity of mutual self-reliance, a clean break from a shared past.

Set against Valentine’s retreating glow, this wasn’t a tale of passion’s ruin but a dispassionate reallocation—a marriage’s end as precise as a financial audit.

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