Meet the Family Law Attorneys Attorney in Sacramento, California

Meet Mary C. Molinaro

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i think the most
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rewarding uh part of the practice is
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is when i see that clients
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have grown and that i’ve helped them
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with either resources
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or educating them or empowering them
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to make decisions i’ve had clients
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before
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that have never balanced a checkbook
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don’t know what’s in their bank account
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don’t know how to buy a house
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or just don’t don’t know what to do with
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their future going forward
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so i’ve been doing this so for so long
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that after i’ve interviewed a client i
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can pretty much
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see what their needs are going to be as
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far as being able to help them
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transition
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and when i can see a client transition
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successfully
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into that next stage of their life and
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they are empowered to do that
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that gives me a lot of satisfaction
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i think that i want to do no harm
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that i really want to help people become
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the best
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versions of themselves through this
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process
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so trying to educate people um
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about what their rights and obligations
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are within the framework of the law
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and providing them with resources
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and knowledge to make this transition
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that they have through a divorce
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as seamless as possible
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as painless as possible and
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you know help them grow into that next
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phase
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i have a real heart for service to other
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and so have been doing that for many
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years
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i’ve chaired the family loss section of
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the county bar
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i’ve chaired the family loss section of
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the state bar
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i’ve testified in the legislature on
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family law bills
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i have co-founded several non-profits
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including
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the sacramento children’s fund through
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the family law process i learned that
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kids in family law cases a lot of times
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there’s no money to help these
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kids there’s money in like juvenile
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court and other
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areas but not in family court so i i
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founded a
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a foundation that provides money for
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kids in family law cases might be for
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counseling might be for prom tickets
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might be for glasses the parents are
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going through a divorce they
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don’t have money and so we grant uh
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funds for that and i’ve i’ve had that uh
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running for about 25 years now
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i also um co-founded a foundation
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for educating and providing
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funds statewide for organizations
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that are don’t have a lot of money that
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are providing services to family law
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litigants
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or families and they don’t have a lot of
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money to do that so
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we raise money for that i also
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found a few years ago i want to say it
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was about 10 or 12 years ago
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there was this really big problem in the
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sacramento area
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called human trafficking i’d never heard
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of human trafficking i
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i didn’t know what it was but i knew as
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i started to
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find out about it because i was asked to
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do some pro bono work for
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family law victims in the legal field
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and as i learned more and more about it
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i
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decided something something more needed
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to be done and so
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i started a non-profit to provide
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education
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for the kids in some of the marginalized
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communities in the
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greater sacramento area and we go into
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the schools and provide
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education preventative education around
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the issue of human trafficking and we’ve
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been doing that for about
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15 years now

Sacramento, CA family law attorney Mary Molinaro shares the philosophy that guides her work, the most rewarding aspect of her practice, and her extensive services to the community.

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