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January is often treated as a structural reset—an arbitrary but powerful line drawn between what was and what might still be reconfigured. That impulse toward reordering appears, in more formal terms, in Cook County, Illinois, where a marriage entered its final administrative phase on January 16, 2026. On that date, Alyssa Kyle Wolffking filed a petition for dissolution of marriage, asking the court to formally unwind her relationship with Andrew Alexander Wolffking.

The couple, both thirty-six, married on February 29, 2020, in San Diego, California, a leap-year date that once suggested rarity and intention. By the time the petition was filed, both parties were residents of Chicago, living separate lives within the same city. The filing states that irreconcilable differences led to an irretrievable breakdown of the marriage, with reconciliation deemed neither realistic nor in the family’s best interests. No children were born of the marriage, and none are expected.

Through her attorney, Zoé Lemon of O. Long Law, LLC, Alyssa Wolffking asks the court to dissolve the marriage and to equitably divide marital property and allocate marital debts. The petition further requests that each party be awarded exclusive possession of their respective non-marital property. It seeks an order barring Andrew Wolffking from receiving maintenance or attorneys’ fees, asserting his capacity for self-support, while simultaneously requesting that he pay both temporary and permanent maintenance to Alyssa in accordance with statutory guidelines. The petition also asks that Andrew contribute to Alyssa’s attorneys’ fees and costs.

The filing concludes with a request for any additional relief the court finds just and equitable. In a month associated with fresh starts, the petition reflects a more deliberate exercise: redefining fairness, obligation, and autonomy through the careful logic of the law.

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