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There are marriages that linger like jazz notes in a smoky room—soft, spiraling, unresolved. And then, there are marriages like this one: bright, brief, and burned down before the coda. On March 31, 2025, Alexandra Goodwill stepped into the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, her petition for dissolution crisp, exact, and undeniably final. She sought the court’s hand in unraveling a union with Robert C. Weisbecker that began on a sun-drenched April afternoon in Miami in 2021—just shy of a four-year marriage.

Though the couple remained under one roof, the home was more a hallway than a haven. Irreconcilable differences, the term-of-art that masks the deeper fractures, had bloomed between them like silent ivy climbing the walls. According to her filing, they had lived separate lives—emotionally and otherwise—for at least six months before the petition.

Goodwill, represented by the attorneys of Mammadias | Goldberg | Vanderporten, requested a clean division. She sought her share of the marital property, including various wedding gifts, financial accounts, an automobile, and retirement benefits. Importantly, she also moved to protect her non-marital assets—those untouched by the union—from future claims by Weisbecker.

There are no children at the heart of this dissolution, no shared legacy but the furniture and fault lines. Each party, as the petition notes, is financially self-sufficient, healthy, and capable of standing alone. No support, no spousal maintenance. Just a wish for the court to sever ties with civility and, perhaps, quiet grace.

The paperwork closes not in anger, but with the cool precision of a scalpel. What was joined in vows beneath the Florida sun now awaits final judgment under the gray skies of Cook County.

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