diff --git a/typedspark/_transforms/transform_to_schema.py b/typedspark/_transforms/transform_to_schema.py
index e90d4786..e951f4b6 100644
--- a/typedspark/_transforms/transform_to_schema.py
+++ b/typedspark/_transforms/transform_to_schema.py
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
 from typedspark._core.dataset import DataSet
 from typedspark._schema.schema import Schema
 from typedspark._transforms.rename_duplicate_columns import RenameDuplicateColumns
-from typedspark._transforms.utils import add_nulls_for_unspecified_columns, convert_keys_to_strings
+from typedspark._transforms.utils import add_nulls_for_unspecified_columns, convert_keys_to_strings, \
+    add_nulls_for_unspecified_nested_fields
 
 T = TypeVar("T", bound=Schema)
 
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@ def transform_to_schema(
     schema: Type[T],
     transformations: Optional[Dict[Column, SparkColumn]] = None,
     fill_unspecified_columns_with_nulls: bool = False,
+    fill_unspecified_inner_fields_with_nulls: bool = False,
     run_sequentially: bool = True,
 ) -> DataSet[T]:
     """On the provided DataFrame ``df``, it performs the ``transformations`` (if
@@ -69,6 +71,9 @@ def transform_to_schema(
     if fill_unspecified_columns_with_nulls:
         transform = add_nulls_for_unspecified_columns(transform, schema, dataframe.columns)
 
+    if fill_unspecified_inner_fields_with_nulls:
+        transform = add_nulls_for_unspecified_nested_fields(transform, schema, dataframe.schema)
+
     transform = RenameDuplicateColumns(transform, schema, dataframe.columns)
 
     return DataSet[schema](  # type: ignore
diff --git a/typedspark/_transforms/utils.py b/typedspark/_transforms/utils.py
index 2eb65332..082d12b9 100644
--- a/typedspark/_transforms/utils.py
+++ b/typedspark/_transforms/utils.py
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@
 
 from pyspark.sql import Column as SparkColumn
 from pyspark.sql.functions import lit
+from pyspark.sql.types import StructType
 
+from typedspark import structtype_column
 from typedspark._core.column import Column
 from typedspark._schema.schema import Schema
 
@@ -44,3 +46,45 @@ def convert_keys_to_strings(
         )
 
     return _transformations
+
+def _transform_struct_column_fill_nulls(
+        ts_schema: Schema,
+        data_schema : StructType,
+        struct_column: Column,
+):
+    return structtype_column(
+        ts_schema,
+        {
+            getattr(ts_schema, field_name): (
+                _transform_struct_column_fill_nulls(
+                    getattr(ts_schema, field_name).dtype,
+                    data_schema[field_name].dataType,
+                    getattr(struct_column, field_name)
+                )
+                if data_schema[field_name].dataType == StructType
+                else
+                getattr(struct_column, field_name)
+            )
+            for field_name in data_schema.fieldNames()
+        },
+        fill_unspecified_columns_with_nulls=True,
+    )
+
+def add_nulls_for_unspecified_nested_fields(
+    transformations: Dict[str, SparkColumn],
+    schema: Type[Schema],
+    data_schema: StructType,
+) -> Dict[str, SparkColumn]:
+    """Takes the columns from the target schema that are structs and not present in the
+    transformations and validates that all their fields are in the source data, if they are not
+    then fill them with nulls)."""
+    for field in schema.get_structtype().fields:
+        if (
+                field.name not in transformations and
+                field.dataType == StructType and
+                field.name in data_schema.fieldNames):
+            transformations[field.name] = _transform_struct_column_fill_nulls(
+                schema, data_schema, getattr(schema, field.name)
+            )
+
+    return transformations