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In the thick air of April 3, 2025, a twenty-five-year union began its final unraveling within the corridors of the Cook County courthouse. That day, Michael Garner filed a petition for dissolution of marriage against his wife, Catherine Garner, marking the quiet collapse of a marriage that began in Chicago on September 4, 1999.
Filed through his counsel at the Law Offices of Camerlingo Parks, the petition traces the end of a once-stable life now weathered by irreconcilable differences. Both Michael and Catherine, longtime residents of Oak Park, Illinois, have lived separately for more than six months and, according to the filing, have exhausted the will or utility to reconcile.
The Garniers raised three children whose futures now rest on a parenting agreement that Michael hopes will reflect shared responsibilities and liberal time for both parents. Financially, the parties are portrayed as capable: Michael, a self-employed business owner, and Catherine, employed and possibly entitled to support, are asked to shoulder their own legal expenses.
Michael’s petition seeks a just division of assets and debts, leaving each with their non-marital property intact. It is a request not for vengeance, but for clarity and finality. What remains now is the slow machinery of the court to determine how a shared history will be divided—and how each will move forward alone, but still tethered by parenthood.
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