Our People: Kelly Jones

Kelly Jones

Focus Areas of Practice:

  • Advanced Directives for Healthcare – creation of legal documents used to instruct doctors and loved ones on your wishes for life-sustaining treatments and artificially administered and fluids, as well as creating living wills, appointing a health care proxy, and giving directions for organ donation.

  • Estate and Trust Litigation – represent trustees, executors, administrators, guardians, beneficiaries, and wards in all manner of claims relating to guardianships, will contests, breaches of fiduciary duties by trustees and other parties, accountings, trust modification and reformation, allegations of undue influence or fraudulent conveyances, and the interpretation and resolution of issues relating to testamentary capacity intent.

  • Estate Planning – assist clients in creating comprehensive and strategic plans for the management of their property and affairs as it relates to goals and life-changing events.

  • Guardianship – represent clients seeking authority to act on behalf of minor children, elderly parents, special needs children entering adulthood and other incapacitated individuals to safeguard their person and property.

  • Mediation Services – assist parties to mediate and negotiate disputes in probate, estate, and trust-related matters.

  • Non-Probate Asset Distribution – assist clients in setting up and creating beneficiary documents such as transfer on death deeds, transfer on death titles, trusts, etc., to avoid probate.

  • Probate – represent and assist heirs and administrators in relation to the legal proceedings necessary in taking control of a decedent's probate debts and assets.

  • Powers of Attorney – assist clients in the creation of legal documents intended to give others authority to manage property, medical, or financial affairs.

  • Real Property – represent clients needing assistance with title clearing, title opinions, quiet titles, litigation, and conveyances involving real property.

  • Trusts – assist clients in creating non-probate vessels relating to distribution and holding of property, special-needs situations, charitable giving, tax deductions, and to meet various estate and life-planning goals.

  • Wills – assist clients in creating documents outlining the distribution of your assets after death and the appointment of guardians for minor children.

Admissions

  • Oklahoma, including all United States District Courts

  • Texas, including all United States District Courts

  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

  • Cherokee Nation Tribal Court

  • Choctaw Nation Tribal Court

  • Muscogee (Creek) Nation Tribal Court

  • Pawnee Nation Tribal Court

  • Certified Family and Civil Mediator 

Education

  • Juris Doctor, Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing, MI, 2012

    • Magna Cum Laude

    • Top 7% of Class

  • M.S. -- Public Administration, Central Michigan University, 2013

  • B.A. -- Business, Northwood University, 2005

    • Summa Cum Laude

Professional Honors

  • Super Lawyers Rising Star 2023

Professional Organizations

  • Co-Chair - Probate & Estate Planning Section – Tulsa County Bar Association

  • Member – Tulsa Title and Probate Lawyers Association (https://www.ttpla.com/)

  • Member – Tulsa Estate Planning Forum (https://www.tulsaepf.org/)

  • Member – National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (https://www.naela.org/)

  • Member of the Oklahoma Bar Association and the following committees:

    • Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Committee

    • Real Property Committee

    • Title Examination Standards Committee

  • Member of the Tulsa County Bar Association

    • Probate & Estate Planning Section

    • Animal Law Committee

    • Family Law Committee

  • Adjunct Professor - Research and Writing – University of Tulsa Masters of Jurisprudence Program, 2013 – 2021

Community Leadership

  • Early Settlement Mediation (Volunteer) 

  • Heartland Weimaraner Rescue (Volunteer)

  • Ingham County Veterans' Treatment Court (Michigan)

  • Legal Aid of Oklahoma (Volunteer)

  • Life Church – Jenks (Volunteer)

Lectures

Publications

  • "2 Birds with 1 Voluntary Stone" – Oklahoma Bar Journal, on behalf of the Access to Justice Committee