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Kenneth M. Kilbreath
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Direct Dial:  425.450.4275
Fax:  425.635.7720
Email: kkilbreath@insleebest.com

PRACTICE EMPHASIS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Estate Planning and Probate
  • Business
  • Entity Formation and Maintenance
  • Guardianship/Elder Law
  • Ken serves his estate planning clients by utilizing several different tools including wills, living trusts, durable powers of attorney, living wills, life insurance trusts, pre-nuptial agreements, generation skipping trusts, charitable trusts, family foundations, guardianships, and residence trusts.  Ken’s practice also focuses on disputes involving trusts, estates, and guardianships. Ken frequently serves as court appointed special representative and Guardian ad Litem. Ken works with his business clients in the areas of entity formation, succession planning, non-profits, and real estate. 

    Ken is a frequent speaker on estate planning at CLEs and other seminars, has been chosen by his clients as a FIVE STAR: Best in Client Satisfaction Wealth Manager appearing in Seattle Magazine, and has been selected as a “Super Lawyer” by Washington Law & Politics magazine for 2006, 2007, and 2008.

    Ken is “AV” rated by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating obtainable by members of the legal community.

    EDUCATION
    University of Washington School of Law, LL.M., taxation, 1999
    Seattle University School of Law, J.D., 1993
    Willamette University, B.S., 1988

    PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC INVOLVEMENT
    Washington State Bar Association, Member
                    Past Executive Committee Member Real Property Probate and Trust Section
                    Past Newsletter Editor
                    Member, Business Section
                    Editor, Washington Probate Desk Book
    King County Bar Association, Member
                    Co-Chair Real Property Probate and Trust Section 
                    Past Executive Committee Member of KCBA Guardianship and Elder Law Section 
    East King County Bar Association, Member
                    Real Property, Probate, and Trust Section Member
    Estate Planning Council of Seattle, Member
    East King County Estate Planning Council, Board of Directors
    Pediatric Interim Care Center, Past President, Board of Directors

    BAR/COURT ADMISSIONS
    Admitted Washington, 1993
    Admitted U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington, 1995

    PERSONAL
    Ken enjoys running, cycling, playing tennis, and spending time with his wife and their two young children.