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There is a curious precision to how things unravel—often not with drama, but with a kind of bureaucratic poetry. On April 23, 2025, in the Domestic Relations Division of Cook County, Illinois, Carol Blunk filed for dissolution of marriage from Joseph Pakovits, her husband of nearly 24 years. The petition was submitted through her attorney, Annette Fernholz of the Law Offices of Annette M. Fernholz, P.C., a name that surfaces in many quiet departures.
Carol, 61, and Joseph, 58, both reside in LaGrange and once shared more than an address—they worked at the same financial institution. Their parallel professional lives may have given the impression of symmetry, but the emotional ledger tells a different story. No children bind them, and the assets, though shared, are clearly outlined for equitable division.
The language of the filing is deliberate: irreconcilable differences, irretrievable breakdown. Attempts at reconciliation, the petition states, have been exhausted—an assertion that feels less like finality and more like resignation.
Carol seeks not maintenance, but fairness: a clean severance of the marital bonds, each party retaining what is theirs, and a mutual assumption of their own legal costs. In an age when divorces often become sagas of resentment, this one leans toward mutual disengagement—deliberate, quiet, almost clinical.
But even in its restraint, the filing leaves room for something unspoken: that sometimes, what endures is not bitterness, but the long shadow of a shared history once believed to be permanent.
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