Joel J Kent

Joel is an owner and managing shareholder of SKH Family Law & Estate Planning with offices in Portland, Bend, Vancouver, WA and Astoria. He has litigated high asset dissolution cases throughout the State of Oregon and successfully represented numerous clients in highly complex divorces involving business valuations, complex custody disputes, property disputes, support issues and corporate governance. He has years of experience litigating divorces, involving business interests and issues of business valuation. Joel founded the Central Oregon office located in Bend in 1998.

Joel believes that for everything he gets from the Central Oregon community, he must give back three times over, and the most important place to start is with the youth. Upon moving to Central Oregon, Joel began volunteering as a head coach with the Rimrock Volleyball Club and has coached the eighteen-year-old girls’ team ever since. Rimrock’s goal is to support a “positive, nurturing environment teaching the concepts of team and sportsmanship and emphasizing growth, development and enjoyment.” Through the years, Joel’s creative and effective coaching techniques have garnered numerous tournament wins. Joel's players have succeeded at a high level, including four High School Players of the Year, twelve All-State players and five State Championships with their high schools. Most players continue to college, the majority on volleyball scholarships, which Joel takes time to help them secure. Alumni from his teams also include two Collegiate All-Americans and a head coach at Eastern Oregon University.

Joel’s focus on supporting children in his community does not end there. Joel has been an advocate and supporter of the Sparrow Clubs, supporting the club’s effort to match local children in medical need or crisis with neighborhood schools and young people who ‘adopt’ the child and family. By encouraging children who are personally hurting to help other kids, Sparrow Clubs “empower youth to transform feelings of purposeless, detachment and anger into confidence, solidarity and compassion.” They believe that it is vitally important to provide children “with meaningful experiences that give purpose, teach compassion, and instill character, dignity and a sense of community.”

In addition to his love of volleyball, Joel is an avid skier and road biker.