Education & Experience
Dan Beeks has been an attorney in Arizona for over 30 years. He spent many years practicing with prestigious mid-sized and large law firms in Phoenix specializing in commercial litigation. He has extensive experience in nearly all types of complex litigation and appeals, from intellectual property cases to malpractice litigation against brain surgeons, to commercial disputes involving the valuation of small and mid-sized businesses. Dan began practicing family law when he and his former partners were frequently retained by other family law attorneys to represent family-owned businesses in connection with high net-worth divorces.
Later, because of his extensive experience in handling appeals, he began working with the Phoenix divorce attorneys at the Bishop, Del Vecchio & Beeks Law Office on divorce and family law appeals. At Bishop, Del Vecchio & Beeks Law Office, Dan is primarily practicing family law. Although he works on many complex and high-dollar cases, he frequently enjoys helping people in smaller cases, especially if their former spouses are trying to bully or take advantage of his clients. He still practices other areas of civil litigation as well.
Although Dan typically encourages people to be reasonable, and try to resolve family law disputes in a manner that inflicts as little additional damage on the parties’ family relationships as possible, he also knows that sometimes his opponents and their attorneys are not reasonable. In those situations, there is often no choice but to litigate, and litigate hard. When that happens, Dan works tirelessly, and his years of complex litigation experience become a great advantage to his clients.
Dan has been active in the Arizona legal community for many years. For seven years, he served on the Arizona Supreme Court’s committee in charge of the bar examination, including one year as president. He also served as a hearing officer for the Arizona Supreme Court in attorney discipline cases for approximately ten years. He was also selected by the State Bar of Arizona’s Board of Legal Specialization to serve on the committee in charge of certifying attorneys as specialists in personal injury and wrongful death. He has also been recognized by the Volunteer Lawyers Program as one of the top pro bono attorneys in Maricopa County, for his volunteer legal work with impoverished clients who could not otherwise afford to pay attorneys. Dan was also selected as a 2023 Top Rated Litigator by ALM Media and Martindale-Hubbell.
In his free time, Dan loves to train for and compete in endurance sports. He has run several marathons and completed the Ironman Arizona triathlon in 2014 and again in 2019. He is still dreaming of someday qualifying for the Boston Marathon. He has been a volunteer assistant coach for the Desert Vista High School girls’ cross country and track teams since 2014.
Memberships & Associations
- American Bar Association, Member
- Maricopa County Bar Association, Member
- Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Member
- Arizona Association of Family Law Attorneys, Member
Representative Cases
- Papp v. Papp, No. 2 Ca-CV 2023-0060-FC (App. 2023) (fact that husband added wife’s name on a deed for a house he owned prior to marriage did not necessarily entitle wife to 50% of the equity in the house, where there was evidence that Wife’s name was added to deed solely for estate planning purposes).
- Bovaird v. Bovaird, No. 1 CA-CV 21-0698FC (App. 2022) (trial court was not required to make inference that wife had legally remarried, thereby terminating non-modifiable spousal maintenance, based on non-legal “commitment ceremony” at a wedding chappel, with no marriage license).
- Bovaird v. Bovaird, No. 1 CA-CV 21-0698 FC (App. 2021) (non-modifiable spousal maintenance could not be terminated because receiving party participated in a ceremony with her new significant other at a wedding chappel but without obtaining a marriage license; trial court was not required to infer the existence of a valid marriage that would terminate spousal maintenance).
- Gelin v. Murray, ___ Ariz. ___, 494 P.3d 1112 (App. 2021) (retroactive child support before filing date is not mandatory in paternity actions)
- Kelly v. Kelly, ___ Ariz. ___, ___ P.3d ___, No. 1 CA-CV 20-0441 FC (App. 2021) (reversing legal decision-making and parenting time order because trial court improperly prohibited client from presenting evidence regarding the child’s best interests as a sanction, after the client failed to cooperate with custody evaluation professionals)
- Cooper v. Cooper, No. 1 CA-CV 20-0268 FC (App. 2021) (reversing order enforcing settlement reached at mediation because trial court failed to hold a hearing to determine if the client had full knowledge of the nature and extent of the community property at issue, and whether the settlement was fair)
- Moreno v. Beltran, 250 Ariz. 379, 480 P.3d 647 (App. 2020) (appointed pro bono counsel through Arizona Court of Appeals Pro Bono Program)
- Prouty v. Hughes, 246 Ariz. 36, 433 P. 3d 1196 (App. 2018) (custody order from another state can be modified in Arizona without first registering the order in Arizona under UCCJEA)
- Planning Group of Scottsdale, L.L.C. v. Lake Mathews Mineral Properties, Ltd., 226 Ariz. 262, 246 P.3d 343 (2011) (leading Arizona Supreme Court case on personal jurisdiction over out of state defendants in contract and tort cases)
- Alloco v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 256 F. Supp. 2d 1023 (D. Ariz. 2003) (ERISA preemption of state law breach of contract and bad faith claims regarding disability insurance policy)
- Mann v. New York Life Ins. & Annuity Corp., 222 F. Supp. 2d 1151 (D. Ariz. 2002)( (rescission of life insurance binder based on misrepresentations regarding prior drug use)
- Bike Fashion Corp. v. Kramer, 202 Ariz. 420; 46 P.3d 431 (App. 2002) (leading Arizona case on implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing and relationship to express terms of contract)