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In the muted corridors of Cook County’s Domestic Relations Division, a quiet reckoning takes shape as Selena E. Yracheta-Newman steps forward, carrying a petition filed on November 26, 2025, asking the court to dissolve a marriage that once seemed anchored in promise. Represented by Attorney Anthony J. Peraica of Anthony J. Peraica & Associates, Ltd., she presents a narrative shaped not by sudden crisis but by the slow erosion of shared life—irreconcilable differences that have hardened into an irretrievable breakdown.

The marriage, entered in May 2022, has weathered a long season of separation. Both parties have lived apart for more than six months, a stretch defined by distance rather than reconciliation, and by the recognition that attempts at repair would no longer serve either of them. Two children are in Selena’s care—one born of the marriage and another from a previous chapter of her life—whose names remain unspoken in the record but whose futures guide much of what she asks this court to grant.

Her petition moves with clarity: she seeks a formal dissolution of the marital bond; sole allocation of decision-making responsibilities and residential custody; retention of her non-marital property; an equitable division of the marital estate; and child support to sustain the minor children. She further requests that each party shoulder their own attorney’s fees, that both waive maintenance, and that she be allowed to restore her maiden name, Selena E. Yracheta, should she choose to reclaim it.

In these requests is not bitterness, but a steady assertion—an effort to redraw a life with firmer boundaries and renewed autonomy.

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