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See Isolina Ricci in the PBS special “Kids and
Divorce: For Better or For Worse”
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Custody & CoParenting Solutions
 Isolina Ricci’s extensive work as a licensed marriage and family therapist,
mediator, and educator is well known in clinical and legal circles. In the
1970s, she was a pioneer in custody mediation originating the “Parenting
Agreement” (now called Parenting Plans), educational programs for parents and
then trained other professionals in her clinical, educational and
mediation frameworks. Concepts included setting up two homes, two "waves"
of divorce adjustment, meeting children's needs, co-parenting and the use of a
specific “business-like” approach. She championed better words to replace “broken home”, “custody”, and “visitation”
and the right of children to have both parents in their lives-as long as it
was in the child's best interest. Many of her pioneering
concepts have now become accepted standards. She has conducted research on
divorce and child adjustment, writes for both the popular and academic press,
and is a popular lecturer and workshop leader for universities and professional
organizations. She has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows
She is the author of the Mom's House, Dad's House books and a former
executive of a statewide office serving all family court mediation and child
custody services in California. She received
her doctorate from Stanford University, is a Rockefeller Bellagio Scholar,
and has been honored by the
Academy of Family Mediators (now the Association for Conflict
Resolution) and the International and California Association of Family and
Conciliation Courts with their most prestigious awards
for outstanding contributions and achievements in the fields of family
mediation, family court services, divorce, custody, Parenting plans, and for her work with
professionals and families. She is a consultant to attorneys and other therapists, conducts continuing education for professionals, and has a private practice in Northern California.
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