diff --git a/packages/react-start-client/src/createServerFn.ts b/packages/react-start-client/src/createServerFn.ts
index 5e9be52481..90cf8add39 100644
--- a/packages/react-start-client/src/createServerFn.ts
+++ b/packages/react-start-client/src/createServerFn.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { default as invariant } from 'tiny-invariant'
 import { default as warning } from 'tiny-warning'
 import { isNotFound, isRedirect } from '@tanstack/react-router'
+import { normalizeValidatorIssues } from '@tanstack/router-core'
 import { mergeHeaders } from './headers'
 import { globalMiddleware } from './registerGlobalMiddleware'
 import { startSerializer } from './serializer'
@@ -802,8 +803,10 @@ function execValidator(validator: AnyValidator, input: unknown): unknown {
     if (result instanceof Promise)
       throw new Error('Async validation not supported')
 
-    if (result.issues)
-      throw new Error(JSON.stringify(result.issues, undefined, 2))
+    if (result.issues) {
+      const issues = normalizeValidatorIssues(result.issues)
+      throw new Error(JSON.stringify(issues, undefined, 2))
+    }
 
     return result.value
   }
diff --git a/packages/router-core/src/index.ts b/packages/router-core/src/index.ts
index 060b367c33..4dcc401fcd 100644
--- a/packages/router-core/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/router-core/src/index.ts
@@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ export type {
   StrictOrFrom,
 } from './utils'
 
+export { normalizeValidatorIssues } from './validators'
 export type {
   StandardSchemaValidatorProps,
   StandardSchemaValidator,
diff --git a/packages/router-core/src/validators.ts b/packages/router-core/src/validators.ts
index 9173080077..a9f852d10e 100644
--- a/packages/router-core/src/validators.ts
+++ b/packages/router-core/src/validators.ts
@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ export interface AnyStandardSchemaValidateFailure {
 
 export interface AnyStandardSchemaValidateIssue {
   readonly message: string
+  readonly path?:
+    | ReadonlyArray<PropertyKey | AnyStandardSchemaValidatePathSegment>
+    | undefined
+}
+
+export interface AnyStandardSchemaValidatePathSegment {
+  readonly key: PropertyKey
 }
 
 export interface AnyStandardSchemaValidateInput {
@@ -119,3 +126,59 @@ export type ResolveValidatorOutput<TValidator> = unknown extends TValidator
       : TValidator extends AnyValidatorObj
         ? ResolveValidatorOutputFn<TValidator['parse']>
         : ResolveValidatorOutputFn<TValidator>
+
+/**
+ * Creates and returns the dot path of an issue if possible.
+ *
+ * @param issue The issue to get the dot path from.
+ *
+ * @returns The dot path or null.
+ */
+function getDotPath(issue: AnyStandardSchemaValidateIssue): string | null {
+  if (issue.path?.length) {
+    let dotPath = ''
+    for (const item of issue.path) {
+      const key = typeof item === 'object' ? item.key : item
+      if (typeof key === 'string' || typeof key === 'number') {
+        if (dotPath) {
+          dotPath += `.${key}`
+        } else {
+          dotPath += key
+        }
+      } else {
+        return null
+      }
+    }
+    return dotPath
+  }
+  return null
+}
+
+/**
+ * Extract spec-guaranteed issue's fields from validation results.
+ *
+ * @param issues Standard Schema validation issues.
+ *
+ * @returns Normalized issues, with root issues and issues by path.
+ */
+export function normalizeValidatorIssues(
+  issues: ReadonlyArray<AnyStandardSchemaValidateIssue>,
+) {
+  const pathlessIssues: Array<string> = []
+  const issueMap: Record<string, Array<string>> = {}
+
+  for (const issue of issues) {
+    const dotPath = getDotPath(issue)
+    if (dotPath) {
+      if (issueMap[dotPath]) {
+        issueMap[dotPath].push(issue.message)
+      } else {
+        issueMap[dotPath] = [issue.message]
+      }
+    } else {
+      pathlessIssues.push(issue.message)
+    }
+  }
+
+  return { root: pathlessIssues, issues: issueMap }
+}