Attorney Profiles

Kent Alderman is a shareholder in the Corporate and Tax department. He focuses his practice on elder law issues, state and federal tax issues and tax planning including estate planning and probate work. He also has extensive experience with trusts, trust administration, special needs trusts, guardianships and conservatorships. Kent is an active member of the Utah State Bar Tax Section and Estate Planning Section, the American Bar Association Tax Section, Real Property, Probate and Trusts Section and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. He has been a member of the Utah State Bar Needs of the Elderly Committee since 1993 and was chairman for 1996, 1997 and 1998. Kent is past chair of the Utah State Bar Estate Planning Section. He has been a lecturer at Continuing Legal Education classes on elder law, taxation, probate, guardianship and conservatorship, and a panel member at the Utah Gerontological Society Conference Round Table on Guardianships and Conservatorship in 1997 and 1999. He is currently serving on the Utah Commission on Aging and the Committee on Probate Law and Procedure of the Administrative Office of the Courts.

He has been a mediator on the Court-Annexed Alternative Dispute Resolution roster for the Third District Court. From 1990 to 1992, Kent was group manager of the Stabilization Division of the San Francisco District Internal Revenue Service, and from 1973 to 1974 was chief of the Legal Procedures Unit, Special Procedures Staff of the San Francisco District Internal Revenue Service. He left the Internal Revenue Service and has been in private tax practice since 1975.

Related Activities and Skills:

• American Bar Association, Taxation Section and Real Property, Probate and Trust Section
• National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys
• Utah Bar Association, Taxation Section, Administrative Law Section, Estate Planning Section and Alternative Dispute Resolution Section
• Utah State Bar Committee on Law and Aging
• Mediator

Published Works:

• The Court-Appointed Surrogate Decision Makers, Guardians and Conservators, November 6, 2002 by Kent B. Alderman