Family and Criminal Law Attorneys

Serving Northern Kentucky since 2015

At Melissa Doss Law, we are committed to delivering exceptional legal representation with integrity, diligence, and dedication. Our mission is to advocate for our clients’ rights, provide strategic legal solutions, and ensure justice through compassionate and results-driven counsel. We strive to uphold the highest ethical standards while tailoring our approach to meet each client’s unique needs. Your success is our priority, and we stand by you every step of the way.

In our Family Law practice, we are dedicated to guiding families through life’s most challenging and rewarding legal matters with compassion, honesty, and expertise. Our attorneys provide personalized legal solutions for clients experiencing divorce, child custody or parenting time issues, post-decree issues, agreement modifications, and spousal or child support matters. Our Family Law attorneys also represent clients in adoptions including agency, open, closed, relative and stepparent adoptions. We advocate fiercely for our clients while prioritizing the overall well-being of families and children. With a commitment to professionalism and empathy, we strive to protect our clients and their children’s rights, preserve their futures, and help them navigate the legal process with confidence and clarity.

We have a limited Criminal Law practice that focuses on misdemeanors including DUI, Assault/Domestic Violence, Harassment, Theft and other minor offenses. We provide skilled, strategic, and vigorous legal defense while ensuring that every one of our clients receives just treatment under the law. We understand that even misdemeanor charges can have serious consequences, and we work to minimize their impact on our client’s lives. We will stand by our clients side in and out of the courtroom to ensure the best possible outcome in their cases.

Practice Areas

PRACTICE AREAS

WE WORK FOR YOU

01. MEDIATION

02. COLLABORATIVE DIVORCE

03. DIVORCE

04. SPOUSAL AND CHILD SUPPORT

05. ADOPTION

06. CUSTODY AND PARENTING TIME

07. AGREEMENT MODIFICATIONS

08. POST DECREE ISSUES

09. MISDEMEANORS

Meet Our Team.

Melissa H. DossOwner and Attorney at Law

Melissa earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky and her Juris Doctor from the University of Dayton and is licensed to practice in Kentucky. She started Melissa Doss Law as a solo practitioner in 2015.
Melissa has been married to her husband Daniel for 15 years and is a proud mother of three young children. In her free time, she enjoys working out, hiking, chasing her kids around and traveling.
Melissa is active with the Northern Kentucky Bar Association, the Kentucky Bar Association and the Northern Kentucky Collaborative Law Group.

Emily L. CostinAttorney at Law

Emily earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Northern Kentucky University in 2012. She returned to NKU to attend law school at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law and earned her Juris Doctor in 2019.

Emily served as a Prosecutor, in a legally diverse Northern Kentucky County, for four years before joining Melissa Doss Law in the private sector. Emily’s experience as a Prosecutor has made her a confident and skilled courtroom attorney who is proficient in the Rules of Evidence and expert in navigating any challenge that arises during hearings and trials.

Emily is happily married to her husband, Scott, and is a proud mom of four children ranging in age from adult to toddler. She enjoys working out at Burn Boot Camp, is actively involved in her local church and enjoys spending as much time outdoors in the sun as possible.

Emily is active in the Kentucky Bar Association and the Northern Kentucky Bar Association.

Brook L. MullinsAttorney at Law

Brook earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Kentucky where she graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2016. Brook went on to complete her Juris Doctor at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law where she graduated near the top of her class in 2019.
Influenced by her own parents’ years long divorce that took place while she was in high school, Brook fully appreciates the difficulties and impact of divorce and child custody issues from all sides.
Family and friends are near and dear to Brook. Brook and her husband, Ben, look forward to welcoming their first child in November 2025, and they are the proud aunt and uncle of two nieces. When she is not spending time with her family and friends, Brook enjoys coaching youth basketball and volleyball, as well as working in her garden
Brook previously served as the Co-Chair of the Northern Kentucky Bar Association’s (NKBA) Family Law Section in 2021 and 2022, and she is an active member of The Academy of Northern Kentucky Collaborative Professionals (ANKCP).
Brook is proud to have been selected for the Kentucky Super Lawyers Rising Stars List for 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026.
Brook is also honored to have been recognized by the NKVL in conjunction with the Young Lawyers Divisions (YLD) of the Kentucky Bar Association (KBA) and the NKBA as the 2024 Pro Bono Attorney of the Year.

Julia B. StoeckelParalegal

Julia is a skilled and detail-oriented paralegal with over 15 years of experience assisting attorneys and clients in their case management.

Julia is a Northern Kentucky native, graduating from Covington Latin School in 2001 and earned her undergraduate degree in Integrated Strategic Communications from the University of Kentucky in 2005.

Julia is a proud mom to three school-aged kids. She truly loves working in Family Law and helping clients achieve solutions that have a positive impact on their family’s future.

Angela A. BouleyLaw Clerk

Angela is a Currituck, North Carolina native and earned her undergraduate degree in Public Health Studies from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 2015. She is currently a 2L at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University.

Angela had a decade long career in physical and online businesses before starting law school. This experience enables her to be detail oriented and technologically savvy and possess strong communication skills. Passionate about being an attorney, Angela is committed to gaining hands-on experience while contributing to the success of each case at Melissa Doss Law while she finishes her degree.

Angela is married to her husband, Michael and they have a black lab, named Charlie. Angela enjoys reading books, spending time with her family and finding great coffee from a local coffee shop wherever she is.

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