A highly experienced negotiator and formidable litigator, Tanya Stanish represents a wide variety of clients, from prominent executives, entrepreneurs, medical and legal professionals to professional athletes, spouses with trusts and stay-at-home spouses. Her work includes every aspect of complex and high net-worth family law such as executive compensation plans, trusts and business interests as well as high-conflict child custody and parenting issues. Trial experience includes success with complex divorces and paternity and domestic violence cases. Outside the courtroom, she has considerable proficiency with prenuptial and postnuptial agreements for wealthy individuals.

High net worth family law often involves legacy and generational money, and Tanya understands the desire to protect family and children's' interests in a divorce proceeding. With a background in economics, mathematics and accounting, she knows the nuances of balance sheets and can decipher complicated assets, incentive plans, trusts and distribution issues – whether you are protecting the wealth or are trying to capture it. She also understands lifestyle perspectives of her clients. Child and spousal support is often complex due to wealth, and Tanya knows how to present it to the court.

Lectures

• “Post-Divorce Representation,” Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE), 2007-08
• “Commingled and Transmuted Property: Reimbursements Owed between Marital and Non-Marital Estates,” Chapter in Property Issues in Family Law Handbook, Illinois State Bar Association, September 2006
• “Cutting-Edge Illinois Custody Law,” Chapter in Handbook for Fifth Annual Family Law Conference, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Spring 2006
• “Issues in Paternity Litigation,” Chapter in Handbook for Fourth Annual Family Law Conference, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, April 2005
• “How to Prepare and Obtain an Order of Protection,” Chapter in Handbook for The Chicago Bar Association Young Lawyers Section: A Divorce Primer for New Attorneys, April 2004
• “The Essentials of Effective Dealings with Clients.” Jenner & Block LLP, Seminar, January 2003
• “English Only Rules in the Workplace: Discrimination of Employer Prerogative.” DePaul Business Law Journal, Spring/Summer, 1995

Authorships

• Interviewed on NBC 5 Chicago regarding Brad Pitt child abuse allegations, September 2016.
• Interviewed for CBS Local, "Spouse on Ashley Madison? Read These Tips," August 2015.
• “A Quiet Divorce,” Worth (February 2006)
• Co-Author, “Family Law in Illinois,” Manual for National Business Institute (2003)
• Co-Author, “Paralegals in Family Law Practice in Illinois,” Manual for Institute for Paralegal Education (2001)