For most Rohnert Park families, child support is the most immediate financial concern when a marriage ends—more pressing than property, more personal than any other number in the process. California's guideline formula gives you a starting point. What it doesn't give you is a support structure that accounts for your children's actual costs, your employment reality, and what both parents can sustain without coming back to court every two years to relitigate a number that should have been thought through more carefully the first time. Marla Keenan-Rivero's child support mediation produces agreements built to last—detailed, accurate, and flexible enough to handle what's ahead.

Rohnert Park has a significant public sector employment base—Sonoma State University faculty and staff, healthcare workers, public employees—with income structures that interact with California's child support formula in specific ways. CALPERS pensions, sick leave cash-outs, and benefit packages with real cash value don't always appear correctly in basic guideline calculations. Marla's 24 years in family law mean she's worked through these income profiles many times. She knows what courts look for and what they miss, and she facilitates a support discussion that gets the numbers right the first time.

Rohnert Park child support mediation covers the full scope of support components: base monthly amount, health insurance cost sharing, uncovered medical expenses, childcare costs tied to work schedules, educational expenses, and provisions for extraordinary costs. For families with public employment, the process includes review of full compensation—base salary, benefits, overtime, and pension contributions—to ensure the income figure reflects actual earning capacity. The Memorandum of Understanding produced after each session documents all agreed support components with enough specificity to prevent future disputes.

Call (707) 525-8800 or email Tidwell@perrylaw.net.