Meet the Family Law Attorneys Attorney in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Meet Michael Fink
Meet Michael Fink
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family law it’s a calling
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it’s really a passion to do it properly
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you have to care about the clients so i
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look at it my philosophy is this is a
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calling but it’s not a crusade
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i’m not about to start a war
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between my client and the opposing party
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my goal
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is to do what’s right for the client and
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cause the least amount of pain possible
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from getting the start to point b
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interim relief temporary
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parenting time all the way to the final
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judgment and decree
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i don’t want war
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conflict just costs money
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if you’re fighting the other attorney
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and not getting along with them
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you’re doing a disservice to your client
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and so my philosophy
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is it’s a calling but not a crusade
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my other philosophy
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is that family law takes great patience
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it’s a marathon it’s not a sprint cases
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take time to develop and they take time
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to resolve if you’re going to do it
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right
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things do not happen overnight if
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somebody comes in here and asks me how
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long a divorce is going to take i’m not
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going to say we’re going to get it done
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in a month or six weeks
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i tell them the range and that could be
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months i’ve even had divorces go a year
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a year and a half before they even get
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to trial and that’s just the reality of
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of how family law works
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a lot of people ask me you know they
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look at me you know i’m quite
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distinguished with gray hair and and
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when i say i’ve only been practicing
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family law for 10 years they wonder well
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what did i do before
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and and how did that help prepare me for
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this career
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prior to becoming a lawyer i owned a
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family business i went into business
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with my father i started helping him
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when he got sick
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right when i graduated from college and
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we owned a family business selling
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promotional products custom printed
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t-shirts and mugs
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and i took that business uh with my dad
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we built it from about a quarter million
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dollar company in 1978 to 79
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into a nine or 10 million dollar company
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uh in 2008.
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then there was the recession
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and frankly after 30 years of doing this
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business i i was looking for something
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different to do something that
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would be more of a challenge that i
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could be more passionate about than just
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making money i had dreamt of being a
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lawyer before my father got sick
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so i first went to graduate school i got
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a degree in public affairs so that i
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could understand
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how law is made how public interest and
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law intersects so that i could properly
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interact with the judicial system then i
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went to law school
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at the age of
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i think i was 56 when i went to law
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school and i spent three years got my
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law degree i was admitted to the bar in
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2012 in minnesota and the rest is
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history i i started out
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working for a boutique family law firm
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they gave me some training they gave me
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a start and four years ago i went out on
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my own and founded michael think law
Minneapolis, MN family law attorney Michael Fink shares the philosophy that guides his work and covers his unique background and experience.
