Most divorce mediation practices are designed for straightforward cases: a home, some retirement accounts, custody. Marla Keenan-Rivero's practice is designed for something harder. After 24 years as one of Sonoma County's most experienced family law litigators—handling the region's most complex high-asset divorces through the court system—she knows exactly where complexity breaks down in litigation and why mediation produces better outcomes for the families with the most at stake. For Santa Rosa couples with businesses, multiple properties, significant investment portfolios, or retirement accounts requiring QDROs, this is the right process.

Santa Rosa's professional class—medical and dental practices, law firms, real estate investors, technology entrepreneurs, long-career executives—produces exactly the divorce complexity that mediation handles best. A closely held professional practice requires valuation. Multiple properties require appraisal and a rational division strategy. Retirement accounts accumulated over long careers require QDRO work. Stock portfolios with unrealized gains require tax-aware division. In litigation, each of these issues becomes a battlefield. In mediation, they become problems to solve together—with 20+ -year family law attorney at the table.

Complex financial divorce mediation addresses the full scope of high-asset division: business and professional practice valuation methodology, real estate including multiple properties, retirement accounts (401k, IRA, defined benefit plans, CALPERS), stock portfolios and equity compensation, deferred compensation and unvested RSUs, tax implications of proposed property divisions, and support in the context of complex income. Marla coordinates with each party's financial professionals and attorneys as needed, and the process produces a comprehensive Memorandum of Understanding covering all asset classes.

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