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The final act of Lindsay Bayley and Andrew Bayley’s thirteen-year marriage played out quietly, through paperwork filed on April 24, 2025, in the Circuit Court of Cook County. What had once been a partnership formed on August 3, 2012, in Chicago, now stood marked by the signature of irreconcilable differences.
At 45, Lindsay Bayley petitioned the court through her attorney, Taryn S. Fisher of Sage Counsel, LLC. She sought not only the dissolution of marriage but also the judicial affirmation of agreements already reached. Andrew Bayley, 47, was named respondent in a proceeding that, by design, carried no accusations or acrimony—only the formal untying of lives built together.
The couple share a single child, born in 2014, and the care of that child was addressed with foresight and coordination. Their negotiated parenting plan and division of assets were encapsulated in a Marital Settlement Agreement and an Allocation Judgment, both submitted to the court for approval. The documents reflect not just a desire to end the marriage, but an effort to minimize disruption in the life they helped create.
In requesting that the court accept the terms and finalize the dissolution, Lindsay Bayley asked for no grand gesture—only fairness, acknowledgment, and the quiet dignity of closure under Illinois law. The hearing, like much of their final chapter, will likely unfold via video, fitting for a separation rendered not by spectacle but by mutual understanding.
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