Windsor is a family-centered community, and divorce here carries a weight that it might not in a more transient place. Both parents are likely staying. The kids are staying in Windsor Unified. You'll see each other at school events, at the Town Green, in the neighborhoods you've both called home. How the divorce is handled—whether it produces two people who can co-parent reasonably, or two people who spent a year fighting in court and are now permanently adversarial—shapes the next decade of family life. Windsor divorce mediation with Marla Keenan-Rivero is designed with that reality in mind.

Marla's 24 years in Sonoma County family law litigation give her a particular advantage for Windsor divorces: she knows what litigation does to families in small communities. She has seen couples who litigated through Sonoma County Superior Court walk away with agreements that a mediator could have produced in four sessions—and permanent damage to a co-parenting relationship that didn't need to happen. Windsor divorces involving significant home equity, vineyard or agricultural property, and children in the local school system are exactly the cases where mediation's advantages over litigation are clearest.

Windsor divorce mediation addresses the complete dissolution of a marriage: property division (including the significant home equity that defines most Windsor cases, plus any vineyard or agricultural land, business interests, or investment accounts); spousal support; child custody and parenting plans tailored to Windsor's schools and community; and child support. Available at Marla's Santa Rosa office (10 minutes from Windsor) or via secure video. Most cases complete in 2–4 sessions with a comprehensive Marital Settlement Agreement submitted to the court.

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