Rohnert Park was designed in the 1950s on the premise that you could build a real community from scratch—grid streets, parks, neighborhood schools, no pretense of a downtown, just places where people could live and get on with things. It worked. Decades later, people are still here: raising families, working at Sonoma State or the surrounding healthcare and service economy, building careers, doing exactly what the city was designed for.

Which is why, when a marriage ends in Rohnert Park, the desire for privacy runs deep. You know your neighbors. Your kids go to school with their kids. Marla Keenan-Rivero's mediation practice is built around exactly that reality: a confidential, professionally guided process that resolves your family's most sensitive matters without any of it appearing in a public courthouse record.

A private, comprehensive alternative to Sonoma County family court—handling property, support, and custody with the legal depth of a 24-year family law attorney. Ten minutes from Rohnert Park, or available via secure video. Learn more

Divorce mediation for Rohnert Park couples at every asset level—from families with a home and retirement accounts to those with SSU employment benefits, business interests, or long-term equity positions. Resolved in months, not years. Learn More

Parenting plans built around your children's specific situation—their schools, their activities, the geography of both households. Private, detailed, and built to last. Learn More

Support agreements built for Rohnert Park's employment reality: public sector income, CALPERS-adjacent compensation, SSU employment structures. Gets the number right the first time. Learn More

For Rohnert Park's characteristic cases: moderate income disparity, long marriages with real career sacrifice, and a supported spouse returning to work. An honest, structured process both parties understand. Learn More

For Rohnert Park divorces involving CALPERS pensions, multiple retirement accounts, appreciated real estate, and the specific financial complexity of long public employment careers. Learn More

Sonoma State University defines a lot about what Rohnert Park is economically. Faculty on multi-year contracts, staff navigating CALPERS pension systems, graduate students and young families with pressing custody concerns. The university brings a specific kind of financial complexity that shows up regularly in family law cases here.

Then there's the longer-term Rohnert Park: families who bought homes here 20 or 30 years ago and have watched values climb in ways they didn't expect. Those families have real equity to divide, often alongside retirement accounts accumulated over long careers in education, healthcare, or public service.

Mediation addresses both profiles: the family that needs to move fast with limited resources, and the family that needs to move carefully with a lot at stake.

Marla's Santa Rosa office is about 10 minutes from Rohnert Park via US-101. She also conducts sessions via secure video, which is especially practical for clients with demanding work schedules or young children at home. First consultation is free.

1.    Free consultation — phone, video, or in person

2.    Structured session(s) — at her Santa Rosa office (10 min from Rohnert Park) or via secure video

3.    Memorandum of Understanding — documented after each session

4.    Independent counsel review — each party's attorney reviews before finalizing.

5.    Filed with Sonoma County court — binding on both parties

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