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In a quiet corner of Northbrook, Illinois, Sheila Patel, forty, stepped into the Cook County Circuit Court on March 12, 2025, her petition for divorce from Vipul Patel, forty-seven, carried by the steady hand of Jennifer L. Dillon from Schiller DuCanto & Fleck LLP. Their marriage, sealed August 29, 2015, in Schaumburg, had crumbled under irreconcilable differences—too brittle to mend, too worn for reconciliation. Two children, L.P., seven, and A.P., five, flicker as the heart of this unraveling tale, their lives split between a Chicago past and a Northbrook present since June 2024.
Sheila seeks more than an end—she wants sole decision-making for the kids’ schooling, health, faith, and play, plus the lion’s share of parenting time. Vipul’s wealth, she argues, should fund child support, her maintenance, and her legal fees, while her own income falters against their once-shared lifestyle. Property looms large—marital gains from a decade together, her non-marital stake to reclaim, and a maiden name, Goyal, to resurrect.
This isn’t just a dissolution; it’s a mother’s claim to reshape her children’s world, a bid to balance the scales against a man of means.
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