Bridget Mullins
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Originally from Montana, Bridget L. Mullins (she/her/ella) came to New Mexico to attend the University of New Mexico where she earned a Master’s Degree in Latin American Studies with an emphasis in Human Rights and Spanish language, as well as her law degree. She paid her way through law school by working as a TA teaching undergraduate Spanish classes. Two weeks after moving to Albuquerque, Bridget met her future husband with whom she has two young children.
Bridget loves camping, hiking, and driving around the American West with her family. Since moving to New Mexico, Bridget has found an incredible community of people that she enjoys spending time with. Bridget is an avid reader of novels and non-fiction in both English and Spanish. She considers herself a person who likes to cook and try new recipes (though her family and friends who are reading this might roll their eyes while remembering some particularly flustered moments in the kitchen…)
Bridget represents clients in the areas of Guardianships, Probate, Estate Planning, Elder law, Family law, Medicaid planning, and Special Needs Planning, with a focus on working with Spanish-speaking clients. Because of Bridget’s unique combination of practice areas, she has developed a specialty involving Medicaid divorces, death during divorce, and incapacity and divorce.
Bridget is on the board of the Family Law Section of the New Mexico State Bar and currently serves as Vice President of the New Mexico Guardianship Association. Bridget has a strong trial background after spending many years prosecuting domestic violence, child abuse, and human trafficking cases for the District Attorney’s and Attorney General’s Offices. She has also worked on consumer protection issues and taught Financial Literacy classes to help community members learn about debt, investing, and credit.
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Bridget representa a clientes en las áreas de tutoría legal, sucesión testamentaria y sucesión intestamentaria, planificación de su sucesión – incluyendo poderes o albaceas, testamentos y fideicomisos, derechos de la tercera edad y derechos familiares, con un enfoque en trabajar con clientes hispanohablantes. Además, Bridget tiene un sólido trasfondo de juicio después de pasar muchos años practicando casos de violencias domésticas, abuso infantil y trata de personas para las oficinas del fiscal de distrito y del fiscal general.
Bridget ha trabajado con familias hispanohablantes en muchos contextos diferentes -como maestra, defensora y abogada. Mientras asistía a la escuela de derecho en la Universidad de Nuevo México, Bridget también enseñó clases de español a estudiantes universitarios y obtuvo una maestría en estudios latinoamericanos, además de su licenciatura en derecho. También ha trabajado en temas de protección del consumidor y ha ensenado clases de educación financiera para ayudar a los miembros de la comunidad a aprender a cerca de la deuda, la inversión y el crédito.
Las áreas principales de practica de Bridget son tutoría legal, sucesión testamentaria y sucesión intestamentaria, plantificación de su sucesión, derechos de la tercera edad, derechos familiares y adopciones.
Languages
English, Spanish