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In Cook County, where lives are filed and sorted into numbered calendars, Eric Harte stepped forward with a petition that spoke not only of an ending but of responsibility carried forward. Filed on December 3, 2025, the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage asks the court to formally close a chapter that began on January 6, 2018, when Eric Harte and Shelby Harte were married in Savannah, Georgia.

The petition describes a marriage worn down by irreconcilable differences and an irretrievable breakdown that reconciliation could no longer mend. Though the parties share twins born during the marriage, the filing emphasizes continuity rather than rupture. Eric Harte requests that the court award joint allocation of parental responsibilities for decision-making, or, in the alternative, sole allocation to him, and that he be designated the primary parent, receiving the majority of parenting time while preserving reasonable parenting time for Shelby Harte.

Both parties are described as capable of supporting themselves financially and contributing to the support of the children, and the petition expressly asks that neither party receive maintenance from the other. The filing further requests an equitable division of marital assets and debts, while setting aside each party’s respective non-marital property and non-marital liabilities. Each party is also asked to bear responsibility for their own attorney’s fees and costs.

Through his counsel, Attorney Grace M. Rohan of Rohan Law, LLC, Eric Harte asks the court to dissolve the bonds of matrimony, formalize custody and support arrangements rooted in the children’s best interests, and grant any further relief the court deems just—an appeal for structure, fairness, and a future carefully accounted for.

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