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There is a quiet economy to the way this marriage arrives in court, as if it had already been thinning long before the papers were filed. In Cook County, Illinois, Alexis Lynn McAvoy Heimlich petitioned for the dissolution of her marriage to Bryce Stephen Heimlich, placing the matter before the Domestic Relations Division on December 4, 2025. The filing does not dramatize the end; it records it, carefully and without ornament.
The parties were married on March 9, 2024, in Chicago, a union brief enough to still feel recent, yet distant enough to be unworkable. The petition states that no children were born of the marriage and that Alexis McAvoy Heimlich is not pregnant. What stands between the parties now is not a tangle of dependents or shared real estate, but the quieter weight of irreconcilable differences, described as having caused an irretrievable breakdown beyond repair.
Through her attorney, Evan James Mammas of Mammas | Goldberg | Vanderporten, Alexis McAvoy Heimlich asserts that both parties are able to support themselves without maintenance. The filing notes that no real property was acquired during the marriage and that any marital property in existence is already in the physical possession of each party, who should retain it as their sole and separate property. There is no formal agreement governing support or division, and no competing dissolution action pending elsewhere.
In her prayers for relief, the petitioner asks the court to enter a Judgment of Dissolution of Marriage, to bar both parties from any present or future claims for maintenance or support, and to award each party the property currently under their dominion and control, with each responsible for their own attorneys’ fees and costs. She also requests the restoration of her maiden name, Alexis Lynn McAvoy, and any further relief the court deems equitable and just. What remains is a record of a marriage ended not with spectacle, but with finality.
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