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i would say the most rewarding aspect of
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being a family law
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attorney is the journey that i see
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people on i see people coming into my
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office
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at the worst time of their lives they
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have
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uh have a broken down relationship with
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their spouse and they need to move on
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and it takes a while to get a divorce
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and i get to see the journey from them
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seeing
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being sad and broken down to the other
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end of the rainbow basically
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and being happy being at the other side
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of this and being able to move on
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to a different place in their lives
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where they can have a better
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start and a new start to to the next
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phase of their lives
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you know the background and experience
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that i think that i have that is the
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most important to be a family law
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attorney
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is that i am an accountant i was an
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accountant for 10 years before
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i went to law school and i think that
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makes a real difference when you’re
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dealing with complex financial issues
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even though we always hire financial
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experts i can read those documents as
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well and that background
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and experience really makes a difference
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because i can sit beside the forensic
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and understand the language that they
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are speaking
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and that makes a real difference when i
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have to question people
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about their financial aspects and
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understand those documents
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way ahead of the ballgame before the
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forensic even explains it to me
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so in california some of the credentials
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that you can have
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anybody can be a family law attorney you
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hang out your shingle and you can say
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i’m doing family law
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but if you want to take it a next step
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further you have to do what’s called the
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certified family law specialist exam
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what that means is that you take an
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extra sort of mini bar exam
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where you do a lot of studying you take
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another certification test
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and you set yourself apart by learning a
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lot more about family law
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and then doing extra continuing
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education that is not required by the
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state bar
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of california and i think that makes you
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more
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knowledgeable as a family law attorney
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so that’s a special certification that i
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have
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and a lot of the other people in my firm
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have which makes us
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uh just a little notch above uh some of
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the other family law attorneys that are
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out there