Michael A. Kirtland
Managing Partner
Email: mak@kirtlandseal.com
Practice Areas: Trusts and Estates; Estate Planning; Wills; Probate; Elder Law; Guardianship; Conservatorship; Premarital Agreements; Postnuptial Agreements; Ancillary Probate; Guardianship and Conservatorship; Adult Guardianship; Advance Directives; Elder Guardianship; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Collaborative Law; Mediation; Taxation; Estate and Gift Taxation; Federal Estate and Gift Taxation; Contested Trusts and Estates; Decedents Estates; Estate Administration; Estate Litigation; Estate Planning for Parents of Handicapped Children; Estate Planning for the Disabled; Estate Planning for the Elderly; Estate Planning for Unmarried Couples; Estate Settlements; Family Trusts; Family Wealth Transfer; Living Trusts; Pet Trusts; Powers of Attorney; Special Needs Trusts; Trust Administration; Trust Law; Trust Planning; Contested Wills; Inheritance; Living Wills.
Admitted: 1994, Alabama and Colorado; U.S. District Court, Middle District of Alabama; U.S. District Court, District of Colorado; U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits; U.S. Tax Court; U.S. Supreme Court
Law School: Faulkner University, Jones Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 1993; University of Alabama, LL.M., Taxation, 1999
College: Coe College, B.A., 1974; University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, M.P.A., summa cum laude, 1981
Member: El Paso County (Member, Probate Section) and Colorado (Member: Sections on: Trusts and Estates; Elder Law; Alternative Dispute Resolution Chair, Joint Task Force on Advance Directives, Member, Ethics Committee) and American (Member, Senior Lawyers Division, Alternative Dispute Resolution; Real Property, Trust and Estate Law; Vice Chair, Elder Law Group; Section Liaison between Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section; Senior Lawyers Division; Acquisitions Editor, Book Publishing Committee) Bar Associations; Alabama State Bar; American Inns of Court (Colorado Springs); National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys; Colorado Springs Estate Planning Council; Air Force Association; Military Officers Association of America.
Biography: Pi Alpha Alpha. Member, Editorial Board, The Alabama Lawyer, 1995-2004. Certified Elder Law Attorney, National Elder Law Foundation. Certified to practice before the Veterans Administration. Registered Mediator, Alabama State Bar. Member, Board of Directors, Alzheimer's Organization of the Greater Montgomery Area, 2003-2004. Member, Judicial Performance Commission, 4th Judicial District of Colorado. Member, Colorado Advance Directives Consortium.
Military: Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force, 1974-1995
Reported Cases: Ex Parte Rucker, 702 S.2d 456, Alabama 1997.
Born: St. Louis, Missouri, October 27, 1951
ISLN: 909627223
