Amy Keating

Practice Areas

- Dividing complex marital estates, including investment properties, business interests, unusual investments, mineral rights, complicated

retirement plans, and separate property issues;

- Evaluating business and partnership interests for division in divorce;

- Researching and analyzing records to identify misappropriated or hidden marital assets;

- Handling international family law issues, including international custody issues related to The 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction;

- Drafting, interpreting, and evaluating the enforceability of prenuptial agreements;

- Drafting post-nuptial agreements;

- Crafting tailored temporary and permanent spousal and child support plans;

- Issues concerning parental relocation;

- Custody matters involving psychological expert testimony;

- Domestic violence matters; and

- Handling post-decree issues of enforcement and non-disclosed or omitted assets.

Professional Memberships

Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association

Family Law Section, Executive Committee Member (2012-present), Co-Chair (for 2014-2015)

Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers

Publications

- Defining “Habitual Residence” in the Hague Convention, Family Lawyer Magazine, May 6, 2020

- 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)

Personal

- Adjunct Professor at Case Western University College of Law

- Ohio State Bar Association Certified Family Law Specialist

- Certified Mediator specializing in divorce and family matters (Ohio Supreme Court)

- Volunteer Lawyer for the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland and/or Pro Bono Collaborative

Expert in these Jurisdictions

- State: Ohio

- State: Michigan

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

- Federal: The Supreme Court of the United States

Work Highlights

- 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, 589 US____2020

- 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.)

- 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).

Education

Awards