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A petition filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County sets out, in methodical terms, the unravelling of a marriage that began less than five years ago. The case, assigned number 2026D001403 and entered into the docket at 9:31 a.m. on February 26, 2026, concerns Andrew Rosenfeld and Rhonda Singer.

The filing states that Rosenfeld, 70, resides in Oakland County, Michigan, while Singer, 72, has maintained residence in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, for at least 90 days preceding the commencement of the action. The couple were married on August 19, 2021, in Chicago, where the marriage was duly registered. No children were born to or adopted during the marriage, and Singer is not pregnant, according to the petition.

At the center of the request for dissolution is the assertion that irreconcilable differences have led to an irretrievable breakdown of the marriage. The document indicates that prior attempts at reconciliation have failed and that further efforts would be impracticable and not in the parties’ best interests. It further references a Pre-Marital Agreement executed on August 6, 2021, detailing each party’s rights to property, income, and estate.

Rosenfeld, through counsel at Beermann LLP, asks the court to enter a judgment dissolving the marriage, to declare the pre-marital agreement valid and enforceable, and to award property in accordance with its terms. The agreement is attached to the petition as an exhibit, and the court is asked to grant any further relief deemed equitable and just under the circumstances.

Filings of this nature often proceed quietly at the outset, defined less by spectacle than by documentation and statutory reference. In late February, as courts settle into the rhythm of a new calendar year, such petitions mark the formal beginning of a process that is administrative in tone but consequential in effect, moving from assertion to adjudication under established law.

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