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Amid the hum of Jackson County’s courthouses, where the hopes and fractures of human bonds are laid bare, Alyssa Marie Bierschbach took her stand on July 30, 2025, to unweave her marriage to William Donald Bierschbach. Married on an unnamed date in an unspecified Missouri county, their union, stretched thin over years, tore apart on June 29, 2025, its threads unraveled by irreconcilable differences. Alyssa, counseled by Jay D. DeHardt and Jill K. Shipman-DeHardt of Shipman & DeHardt, P.C., seeks not only dissolution but the restoration of her maiden name, Alyssa Marie Masoner, a reclaiming of her singular identity.

Their child, a tether between them, prompts Alyssa to request joint legal and physical custody, her home proposed as the child’s base for schooling and mail. She urges William to resume child support, once halted by their marriage, to nurture their child’s education and health. The couple’s shared property and debts, gathered through years of entwined lives, await the court’s equitable division, with any settlement deemed fair or, absent that, a just apportionment. Non-marital assets must return to their rightful owners.

Neither seeks maintenance, each rooted in their own resources, and both bear their legal costs, though Alyssa reserves a claim should William drag out the conflict. In this arena of endings, Alyssa’s plea is for a dissolution that frees her, divides fairly, and restores her name, setting her course anew.

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