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Through the lens of Cook County’s judicial apparatus, a story of quiet disintegration emerges. On February 25, 2025, as Valentine’s month fades into a distant murmur, Emily Johanna McGinnis filed for divorce from Collin John McGinnis in the Circuit Court, a precise incision into a marriage begun August 13, 2022, in Ada, Michigan. Her attorneys at Cyrus Law Group, P.C., crafted a petition that cuts to the core: irreconcilable differences, a union broken since January 26, 2025, with no hope of repair.
Emily, 28, a self-employed hair stylist in Chicago, has anchored herself in Cook County for over ninety days. Collin, also 28, a salesman, resides in Kent County, Michigan. No children bind them—no births, no adoptions, no pregnancy—just two lives diverging across state lines. They amassed no shared property, only individual debts each will bear alone. Maintenance is off the table; both stand self-sufficient, their legal costs their own. Emily seeks only dissolution and the return of her maiden name, Hulst, a subtle reclaiming of identity.
Filed against February’s romantic haze, this petition reveals not a tempestuous collapse, but a deliberate untangling—two souls stepping back from a brief, childless knot, captured in the stark clarity of court records.
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