Mary Elizabeth Lund, Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from UCLA, did a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Cambridge, England, where she did research on divorce and children. She started a mediation and divorce therapy practice in 1985. In 1990 was chosen by Los Angeles Superior Court judges to do custody evaluations. She has been doing collaborative law cases for the last five years. Her articles include original research and theory on effects of divorce on children, parental alienation, divorced fathers, custody evaluations, and mediation training. She trains incoming California Family Law judicial officers and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Child Custody.