Dziedziak, John F.

Melissa Graham-Hurd graduated from the University of Akron School of  Law and has been serving clients since 1984. She is admitted to practice in all Ohio courts and all federal courts, including the Supreme Court of  the United States.

Ms. Graham-Hurd focuses on Family Law.

The term Family Law includes:

•  termination of marriage cases, whether it is Divorce or Dissolution;
• matters which arise after the Decree is issued, whether they are enforcement of the Decree by contempt actions or Motions to change the Decree such as parenting and support issues;
• problems of people who never married but had children and property together;
• guardianship and custody to third persons such as grandparents; and
• Wills and Trusts for people to be able to plan for their children.

She has been the Chair of the Akron Bar Association's Family Law Committee Chair of the Ohio State Bar Association Family Law Committee's CHAIR. She has assisted the OSBA numerous times in writing laws and rules for consideration by the Ohio Legislature and Ohio Supreme Court. Ms. Graham-Hurd frequently provides lectures and continuing education seminars for other attorneys in Family Law matters, and has written a chapter on Government Pensions in the most prominent Ohio Family Law treatise for lawyers. Melissa has a certificate in General and Family Mediation and has served children in family law cases as Guardian ad Litem since the program started in 1991.