Amy Weis is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and is certified by the Ohio State Bar Association as a family relations law specialist. Emphasis: Practice emphasizes Traditional Client Representation and Litigation.
Member: American Bar Association, (Family Law Section, Member of Alimony Committee and Ethics Committee; Ohio State Bar Association (Family Law Committee); Columbus Bar Association (Family Law Committee); Franklin County Trial Lawyers Association. Previous Positions: Franklin County Trial Lawyers Association, Family Law Committee, Chair 2002-2005. CLE Participation: Authored and Presented Effectively Assisting in Custody Disputes, Training Presentation for Paralegals and Legal Assistants (2004); Authored and Presented Retirement Benefits and Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (2003). Author: "Using a Prenuptial Agreement to Minimize Financial Surprises", Franklin County Trial Lawyers Association (2004); Co-Authored "Using Discovery to Your Client's Advantage"; Published in the Best of Family Law, 1997, Edited by Rosemary Rubin.
Member: Ohio State Bar Association. Current Positions: Vice-Chairperson Ohio State Bar Association; Chair of Publications Sub-committee; Caselaw Update Sub-committee; Ohio State Bar Association Certified Specialist in Family Law; Author: Baldwin's Ohio Practice; Sowald-Morganstern Domestic Relations Law - Chapter 3 Parentage. Domestic Relations Journal of Ohio: Practice Pointers: March/April 2005 Issue: Juvenile court has jurisdiction to award past care to an adult emancipated child if parentage action is commenced before child's twenty-third birthday.; Jan/Feb 2003 Issue Tenth District Holds RC 3119.96 Unconstitutional ; Sept/Oct 2002 Issue Granting Custody to Third Party. Lecturer: Frequent lecturer for continuing legal education in Family Law.
Counties of Trumbull and Mahoning, American Bar Association Family Law Section, Ohio State Bar Association Family Law Committee, past president Trumbull County Bar Association, Mahoning County Bar Association, past and current chair Trumbull County Bar Association Family Law Committee, seminar presenter Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers, multiple seminar presenter Trumbull County Bar Association, OSBA Certified Family Relations Law Specialist.
Craig Treneff is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and is certified by the Ohio State Bar Association as a family relations law specialist. He was also selected for Ohio Super Lawyers in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. He is a member of the family law committees of the Columbus, Ohio State and American Bar Associations. He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Domestic Relations Journal of Ohio and a regular contributor to the Journal, a contributor to the Sowald Morganstern Domestic Relations Law treatise (Marital and Separate Property). A former law clerk to Justice William B. Brown of the Ohio Supreme Court, Mr. Treneff is active in civic affairs and is serving as Vice Chairman of Westerville City Council and as a Member of the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission. He previously served as President, Board of Trustees, Directions for Youth; Chairman, Capital Campaign Planning Committee, Directions for Youth; Chairman, Westerville Planning Commission; Member, Westerville Board of Zoning Appeals; and, Member, Church Council (Finance), Trinity Lutheran Church.
Counties of Cuyahoga, Lorain, and Summit. Immediate Past President of the Ohio Chapter, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Past Chairman, Family Law Section, Cleveland Bar Association. He represents clients in a variety of family law matters, including dissolution of marriage, divorce, custody, and premarital agreements. Experience includes complex business valuation issues, treatment of deferred compensation and retirement assets in divorce, analysis of complex executive compensation arrangements, and tax considerations involved in the division and disbursement of marital and separate property. He has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers since 1996. He is also a member of The Center for Principled Family Advocacy, a non-profit organization which educates attorneys and promotes non- traditional alternatives to the resolution of family law matters. He has been recognized in the "Best Lawyers in America", 2003 - 2006, editions. He is listed under "Family Law" in Martindale-Hubbell and The Bar Register of Pre-eminent Lawyers. Frequent Lecturer on Tax Aspects of Divorce; Frequent Lecturer on Family Law in Ohio; Member, Cuyahoga County Bar Association, Family Law Section. Ohio State Bar Association Certified Family Relations Law Specialist and current member of the Certification Committee of the OSBA.
Ohio Chapter AAML President, Oct. 1989-90, Secretary-Treasurer, 1984-85, 85-86, 86-87. Member of ABA Family Law Section, Marital Property Committee Chairman 1984-85; Author of Updated Family Law, OSBA, 1976; ABA Family Law Section, Trial Practice Sub-Committee Co-Chair, 1989-90,1990-91,1991-92; Author of Fair$hare 1991; Author, 1990-91-93-95 Domestic Relations Journal of Ohio. Speaker 1990-91-92,93,94,95 for Ohio Chapter AAML Seminars. OSBA Certified Family Relations Law Specialist.
