Healdsburg family law cases require a different kind of mediator—one who has spent a career at the intersection of high-asset litigation and Sonoma County family law, who understands what winery valuations actually involve, and who can handle the kind of financial complexity that defines wine-country divorce cases. Marla Keenan-Rivero spent 24 years as a family law litigator in Sonoma County. For Healdsburg families with wineries, vineyard land, estate properties, and the kind of financial complexity that those assets generate, her practice offers something genuinely rare: expert, private, legally sophisticated mediation from someone who has handled cases exactly like yours.

Healdsburg's family law cases are genuinely different from the rest of Sonoma County—and they require a mediator whose background reflects that difference. Winery valuation, vineyard land characterization, trust and entity asset treatment, and the income characterization of winery owner distributions are not issues that general family law mediators encounter regularly. Marla has handled them extensively, in litigation and now in mediation. Her practice is designed for exactly the financial profile that defines Healdsburg divorce: high-asset, complex income, requiring both legal depth and complete discretion.

Healdsburg family law mediation covers the full range of high-asset issues: winery and vineyard valuation and disposition, estate property division, trust and entity asset characterization, retirement account division including QDROs, passive investment income in the context of support, and any other matters arising from a separation or divorce in Healdsburg's high-net-worth families. Available primarily via secure video (preferred by most Healdsburg clients for privacy reasons) or in person at Marla's downtown Santa Rosa office. All sessions are protected by California's mediation confidentiality statute.

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