Mulinazzi Law Office

Focus and practice areas

Mulinazzi Law Office works in family law from Columbia, Maryland, in Howard County. Divorce sits at the center of the work, and the firm handles both divorce litigation and collaborative divorce.

Around that core, the firm takes on child custody, child support, asset division and alimony. These are the pieces that usually move together in one case, so grouping them makes sense.

The list runs wider than divorce alone. Mulinazzi Law Office also handles adoption, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, separation agreements, parental relocations, name changes, guardianship and mediation. The firm works on shielding protective order records as well.

Work beyond family court

Two other areas appear on the site: special education matters, and wills, estates and estate planning. Special education is an unusual pairing with family law, though the overlap is real for parents already dealing with schools and custody arrangements at the same time.

Estate planning gives a family a second reason to come back after a divorce concludes. In my opinion that combination reads as deliberate rather than scattered, since a client whose marriage ends often needs a new will soon after.

How the team is built

Three people are named on the site. Thomas E. Mulinazzi and Sarah L. Nadolny are the attorneys, and Eddita Cain is listed as a paralegal.

Thomas E. Mulinazzi concentrates his practice in divorce and family law across central Maryland. His stated work covers alimony, child custody, property division, business valuation and domestic violence. Business valuation is worth flagging: it comes up when a marital estate includes a company, and it takes a different kind of preparation than a straightforward custody dispute.

He also works as a mediator and as a collaborative divorce practitioner, with basic and advanced training certifications in that area. The site notes he was a school teacher before practicing law. That background connects to the special education work the firm lists.

The associate attorney

Sarah L. Nadolny is an Associate Attorney at the firm. She earned a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Maryland, College Park, then a Juris Doctor from Wake Forest University School of Law, and a Master of Laws from the University at Buffalo School of Law.

Her prior roles are the part a reader should weigh. She was a Managing Attorney at Heartly House and a Staff Attorney at HopeWorks. Both are organizations that serve people in crisis, which lines up with the domestic violence and protective order work the firm describes.

Where the firm practices

Maryland family cases are decided county by county, and local court practice matters. Mulinazzi Law Office lists appearances before the courts in Howard, Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Prince George's and Montgomery counties.

Named communities include Columbia, Ellicott City, Fulton, Clarksville, Odenton, Elkridge and Fort Meade. That footprint covers the corridor between Baltimore and Washington, including the area around Fort Meade.

Central Maryland is the stated reach. A client in Ellicott City and a client in Odenton will find their cases heard in different courthouses, so the multi-county experience carries weight.

What the record shows

The firm states that its attorneys are at times appointed by judges to represent children in high-conflict custody cases. Judicial appointment is a meaningful signal in family law. A judge choosing a lawyer to speak for a child is making a judgment about that lawyer.

The firm also states that its attorneys are asked to conduct mediations. That fits with the collaborative divorce training Thomas E. Mulinazzi holds.

These are claims made by the firm on its own pages, and as a reviewer I record them as such. Neither claim comes with numbers or named cases attached. Both are the kind of thing that would be visible to other lawyers in Howard County, which raises the cost of overstating them.

What the site publishes about credentials

Sarah L. Nadolny's law schools and degrees are published in full. Thomas E. Mulinazzi's certifications in collaborative practice are described by level, basic and advanced, without a certifying body named. Bar admission years are absent for both attorneys.

The firm has a Facebook page, an X account and a LinkedIn profile for Thomas E. Mulinazzi. The site publishes a contact form for inquiries.

Reading the listing

The clearest picture here comes from the pairing of skills between the two attorneys. One brings mediation and collaborative divorce training plus business valuation work. The other brings a background in domestic violence services and an additional law degree.

A divorce that ends in agreement and a divorce that ends in a contested hearing call for different approaches. Mulinazzi Law Office lists both litigation and collaborative divorce, and it names an attorney trained in each direction.

Family law rewards depth over breadth, and this is a family law firm with two attorneys and one paralegal. The workload of a small office falls on named people, so a client will likely deal with the attorneys directly.

The evidence supports a firm doing family law in central Maryland with judicial appointments in child representation and a mediation practice alongside it. As a reviewer I would treat the special education and estate planning offerings as extensions of the family work, useful to a client whose matter touches a school system or an estate.