Clove & Associates is a multi-generational St. George CPA firm with three Clove-family partners — Lonnie D. Clove, Jeffrey S. Clove, and Paul R. Clove — in continuous family ownership since 1994. Three decades of single-family ownership puts the firm in a small group of long-tenured Southern Utah CPA practices, alongside HBEG and a handful of Cedar City peers.
Three Cloves, one office
The three-partner family structure gives the firm both staffing depth and internal operational continuity. A client whose returns have been handled by one of the partners has a natural fallback to the other two during scheduling or vacation situations, and the firm’s ownership succession is internal rather than dependent on outside partner recruitment. That sounds like a small operational detail; it is actually one of the harder problems in mid-sized accounting practice, and family firms tend to solve it more reliably than non-family firms.
Why the family-firm pattern fits the segment
Accounting is a relationship business in a way that most professional services are not. Clients send their CPAs the kind of personal-financial detail that builds across years and decades, and a switch in CPA usually involves rebuilding that institutional context with a new firm. Family CPA firms preserve that context across ownership transitions. For business clients specifically thinking about their own succession planning, working with a CPA firm that has solved its own succession is itself a service feature.
Disclosure
Web presence is strong, the founding year is published, and UACPA verification is straightforward across all three named CPAs. Address and phone are consistent across sources.
Where this lands
A multi-generational family CPA firm in St. George with three publicly named partners, three decades of continuity, and clean disclosure across all sources is one of the cleanest accounting candidates in the file, and exactly the long-tenured family-rooted operator profile the 435 register prioritizes.