Beyond the Headlines
What the Headlines Miss in High-Profile Divorce
Strategy lives in what is not reported. How restraint can become the strongest move in a high-stakes case.
Insights
Thoughtful perspective on complex divorce.
Insights for families, advisors, and private clients navigating the legal, financial, and personal complexity of divorce.
Beth’s writing, speaking, and media work reflect her long-standing focus on strategy, children, dispute resolution, private-client concerns, and the ways families move through difficult transitions with clarity.
Featured Insights
Selected thinking for families and advisors.
Each piece is chosen to show how Beth approaches the questions that matter most in complex divorce: what to protect, when to act, and how to keep the larger picture in view.
What Three Decades Teaches You
Mean Doesn’t Mean Good
The matters that hold up over time are the ones where the client kept their composure, and their counsel did too.
Children and Families
Children Do Not Need a Perfect Childhood. They Need a Predictable One.
How to keep a child’s stability at the center of the process without placing the child in the middle of it.
Business and Asset Complexity
The business will be read line by line.
For many owners, a divorce is the closest anyone has ever looked at the company. Preparation decides whether that scrutiny becomes a problem.
For Referral Sources
The advisor already knows half the case.
The professionals who have served a family for years hold knowledge no discovery request can reproduce. Drawing on it well can shape the entire matter.
High-Net-Worth Divorce
How to Choose a High-Net-Worth Divorce Attorney in Chicago
Peer recognition tells you who is respected. These questions tell you who is right for your family.
Topics
High-Net-Worth Divorce
Perspective on the financial, family, and privacy issues that often define complex divorce matters.
Privacy and Discretion
How privacy shapes strategy, communication, and decision-making in sensitive family-law matters.
Business and Asset Complexity
Business interests, compensation structures, trusts, and the broader asset architecture that may affect divorce.
Children and Family Stability
Parenting, family systems, and the decisions that shape children’s experience during and after divorce.
Strategy and Resolution
Beth’s perspective on conflict, negotiation, mediation, collaboration, litigation, and choosing the right path for the matter.
For Referral Sources
Insight for the professionals who support clients before, during, and after complex family transitions.
Writing and Speaking
Perspective shaped by decades in practice.
Beth writes and teaches for the professionals who serve families, from a chapter for Oxford University Press to more than 60 columns for the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. She speaks regularly to wealth managers, estate planning attorneys, mental health professionals, and fellow family-law attorneys.
Co-Author with Carolyn Wilkes Kaas · Oxford University Press · 2024
“The Evolving Role of Lawyers in Family Dispute Resolution”
Chapter 17 in Family Dispute Resolution: Process and Practice,
edited by Peter Salem and Kelly Browe Olson.
Selected Writing
When Kids Can Have a Say: Age and Input on Custody Decisions
November 2025
Securing Parental Rights: Why Second-Parent Adoption Matters for LGBTQ+ Families
December 2024
The How, When and Whether of Dissipation
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, January 2019
Thoughtful, Quiet, Kindly Lawyer Many Times Can Best the Blowhard
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, November 2017
Financial Neutral Can Be Star of Divorce
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, February 2017
Selected Presentations
The Divorce Process: Strategies and Options for Financial Advisors
Financial Planning Association of Illinois, October 2025
Gray Divorce: Estate Planning Tools
Chicago Estate Planning Council, June 2024
Best Practices in Attorney-Assisted Mediation: Changing the Way We Negotiate
February 2024
Parenting Coordinators: Whether, When, and How They Should Be Used
AFCC, December 2023
Demystifying Divorce
Northern Trust, June 2023
Podcasts and Interviews
A returning guest on The Divorce & Beyond Podcast with Susan Guthrie, ranked in the top 1% of podcasts worldwide by Listen Notes.
The Billion Dollar Divorce Playbook: Lessons from the Dream Team You Can Use Too, Parts One and Two
Divorce & Beyond, September 2025
Real-Life Top Divorce Attorneys Break Down Hulu’s All-Female Divorce Firm Drama
Divorce & Beyond, November 2025
Eye-Opening Insights on How to Do Divorce Right
Divorce & Beyond, April 2023
Lessons from a Billion Dollar Divorce Attorney
Divorce & Beyond, July 2020
Love’s Detour: Navigating Divorce
DOLLAR$ and $ENSE, A Private Vista Podcast, October 2023
Divorce Done Right: A Parent’s Guide to Successful Co-Parenting
The Coping Podcast, September 2023
For media, speaking, and event requests, contact Erin Feldman at emfeldman@beermannlaw.com.
Explore Beth’s perspective.
For clients, advisors, and professionals seeking a more thoughtful approach to complex divorce, Beth’s insights offer a window into the judgment and composure that guide her work.