DiTolla, Megan F.

Deanna L. DiPetta joined Zashin & Rich in February 2000. She has over 21 years of experience in divorce and dissolution, custody and visitation litigation, and adoption. She brought recognized experience to the firm's domestic relations practice. Deanna has received the highest legal ability and ethical standards rating from Martindale-Hubbell (a national directory of attorneys).

Deanna received her undergraduate degree from Cleveland State University and earned her law degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

She is a member of several committees of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association. She is an active contributor with the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association as a member of JCRC, the Membership Committee, the Judicial Selection Committee, as well as a chairman to the Family Law Section. Deanna is a member of the Violence Against Women Allocation Committee and the Justinian Forum. She is also active as a member of the Ohio Women’s Bar Association and is a past member of the Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court's Local Rules Committee where she helped to rewrite the domestic relations local rules. She frequently lectures on many family law topics including Guardian ad Litem, custody and alienation, and other domestic relations issues. She has also appeared numerous times on television and radio as a guest commentator on various domestic relations issues. Deanna has been an adjunct professor at Notre Dame College of Ohio teaching Domestic Relations law.

In addition to her legal practice, Deanna is active in the Make-a-Wish Foundation and Hospice of the Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio. She also participates on the Board of Trustees at the First Unitarian Church of Cleveland.