Andrew Zashin

Practice Areas

- evaluating and dividing business and partnerships interests;

- crafting complex property settlements and post-nuptial agreements;

- drafting long and short term spousal support arrangements;

- accounting for the misappropriation and hiding of marital assets;

- enforcing and challenging pre-nuptial contracts; and

- vacating divorce entries on the basis of fraud and non-disclosure of assets.

- allocating parental rights and responsibilities;

- representing parents in custody disputes between states and countries;

- drafting shared parenting plans and visitation schedules;

- advising and litigating issues covering parental relocation;

- computing complex child support calculations;

- litigating domestic violence and sexual abuse issues; and

- analyzing and utilizing psychological expert testimony concerning the “best interests of the child”

Professional Memberships

- Cuyahoga County Bar Association

(Former Family Law Section Chairman)

- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association

- Ohio State Bar Association

- National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Graduate, The Art and Skills of Trial Advocacy, Pacific Regional Program, San Diego, CA, October

22, 2000

- Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers

- Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers

Work Highlights

- Expert Witness: Layne v. Layne, nka Chua, Summit County Court of Common Pleas, Domestic Relations Division, Case No. 2021-06-1674,

(Jan. 18, 2024). Presented expert report and testimony regarding the status of the 1980 Hague Convention on Child Abduction between

the USA and the Philippines.

- Expert Witness: List v. Kaplan-List, FMCE 17-015565 35 (Fla. 17th Cir. Ct. 2022). Testified as to sufficiency of custody bond use for

international travel of a young child and relative safety of different countries pursuant to the United States State Department Travel

Advisory Warnings.

- Golan v. Saada, 833 Fed. Appx. 829, (2022).

- Arimitsu v. Cook, 141 S.Ct. 1514 (2021) Docket No 20-864: certiorari denied

- Monasky v. Taglieri, 140 S. Ct. 719 (February 25, 2020)

- Golan v. Saada, __ U.S. __, (filed Oct. 28, 2020). (On Amicus Curiae team for Cox International Law Center) Certiorari granted

- Monasky v. Taglieri, U.S., No. 18-935, certiorari granted June 10, 2019.

- Taglieri v. Monasky, 907 F.3d 404 (6th Cir. 2018) (en banc), cert. pending, No. 18-935 (U.S. Jan. 18, 2019).

- Taglieri v. Monasky, No. 16-4128, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 5408 (6th Cir. Mar. 2, 2018) (en banc).

(The first Habitual Residence Case under The Hague Convention to be heard en banc by a US Court of Appeals in history and only the

second Hague Case ever to be heard by an en banc court of appeals panel because of its exceptional public importance.)

- Expert Witness “In Re: the matter of ‘M’”, Interpretation of Ohio Revised Code, Court of Appeals, Tel Aviv, Israel, September, 2017.

- Taglieri v. Monasky, No. 16-4128, (6th Cir. argued May 3, 2017).

- Taglieri v. Monasky, No. 16A557, (U.S. dismissed December 9, 2016). Motion to Stay Denied by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan.

- Taglieri v. Monasky, No. 1:15-CV-00947, 2016 WL 8135530, (N.D. Ohio Jan. 25, 2016).

- Roche v. Hartz, No. 1:10 CV 1819, 2011 U.S. Dist LEXIS 22477 (N.D. Ohio Mar. 7, 2011) (Determination of Habitual Residence under 1980 -

- Hague Convention)

- France v. France, 8th Dist. Cuyahoga No. 95629, 2011-Ohio-2402 (The famous “Facebook Bigamist” Case / appeal involving interstate

child custody and UCCJEA questions)

- Dobos v. Dobos, 2009 U.S. Dist. Lexis 127474 (S.D. Ohio W.D.)(Interpretation of Grave Risk of Harm under 1980 Hague Convention)

- Rosen v. Celebrezze, 117 Ohio St.3d 241, 2008-Ohio-853 (Ohio Supreme Court matter involving child custody jurisdiction between states)

- Shutway v. Shutway, 8th Dist. Cuyahoga No. 76737, 2000 Ohio App. LEXIS 461 (Feb. 10, 2000) (Burden of evidence necessary for

domestic violence civil protection order “CPO”)

- Lachowyn v. Lachowyn, 6th Dist. Erie No. E-94-36, 1995 Ohio App. LEXIS 1539 (April 14, 1995) (Property division in high net worth,

significant spousal support, divorce case)

- Solon Family Physicians, Inc. v. Jean Buckles, et al., 96 Ohio App. 3d 460 (8th Dist. 1994) (Prevailed on behalf of medical practice in

contract dispute against law firm)

Career

- CLE National Planning Committee, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Annual National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, November,

2018

- Adjunct Professor of International Law, Cox International Law Center, School of Law, Case Western Reserve University, 2017–present

- Adjunct Professor, School of Law, Case Western Reserve University, 2003–present

- Family Law Mediator / Arbitrator, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Advanced Mediator Training, AAML 2017

Publications

- Regular contributor to Newsweek Magazine.

- Jewish Divorce, Sowald and Morganstern, Baldwin’s Ohio Practice, Domestic Relations Law § 34:32 (2022-2023 ed.)

- Domestic Violence by Proxy: A Framework for Considering a Child’s Return Under the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of

International Child Abduction’s Article 13(b) Grave Risk of Harm Cases Post Monasky, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF - -- ----- - MATRIMONIAL LAWYERS, Vol. 33, 2021 (University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law)

- Jewish Divorce, Sowald and Morganstern, Baldwin’s Ohio Practice, Domestic Relations Law § 36:2 (2019–2020 ed.)

- Obergefell V. Hodges: A Consideration of its Impact Through the Lens of American Judaism, DOMESTIC RELATIONS JOURNAL OF OHIO, - Thompson Reuters, MAY/JUNE 2019.

- The United States as a Refuge State for Child Abductors: Why the United States’ Fails to Meet Its Own Expectations Relative to the -

- Hague Convention, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MATRIMONIAL LAWYERS, Vol. 28, 2015 No. 1 (University of Missouri –

Kansas City School of Law)

- Filling the Gaps with Public Policy: The Application of the Hague Convention Protocol in US Courts in the Absence of a Co-Signing

State, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW, POLICY AND THE FAMILY 2014 (Oxford University)

- Child Custody Litigation and Settlements, 2013 Thomson Reuters/Aspatore (Contributing Author)

- Bus Bombings and a Baby’s Custody: Insidious Victories for Terrorism in the Context of International Custody Disputes, JOURNAL OF

THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MATRIMONIAL LAWYERS, Vol. 21, 2008 No. 1 (University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law)

- A Closer Look at Separation Agreements and Settlement Agreements in Divorce and Dissolution Proceedings, DOMESTIC RELATIONS

JOURNAL OF OHIO, Banks/Baldwin West Publishing, November-December 2001.

Updated and revised, Baldwin’s Ohio Practice. Sowald Morganstern Domestic Relations Law Vol. 2, Chapter 25: Pleadings and Practice.

West Group Publishing, 2002 revision, forthcoming.

- The Enforceability of Settlement Agreements (In-Court Agreements), DOMESTIC RELATIONS JOURNAL OF OHIO, Banks/Baldwin West

Publishing, January-February 2001

- Contributor and presenter to DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, REFERENCE MANUAL No. 99-106, OSBA CLE Institute, Chapter 8: Domestic

Violence and Its Impact on Custody and Discovery

Personal

2018, 25th Reunion Advisory Committee

2018 Endowed, Zashin & Rich Employment Law Prize

2005 – Present Endowed, Zashin & Rich Family Law Prize

Columnist/contributor to the Cleveland Jewish News

Expert in these Jurisdictions

State: Ohio

State: Florida

State: New York

State: Washington D.C.

Federal: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Federal: U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio

Federal: U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio

Federal: The Supreme Court of the United States

Education

Awards