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Trusts * Estates * Probate * Elder Law
"Serving Harris, Galveston, and Brazoria Counties"

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Hegwood & Associates, P.C. provides professional legal services in Texas elder law and estate planning to residents residing in Harris, Galveston, and Brazoria county.  We are also a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA).  

Our goal is to provide the highest quality legal services to you and your business in a timely fashion. Our approach to estate planning in unique: we help you create a true Lifetime Legacy for your loved ones.

What is a Lifetime Legacy? It is simply an estate plan that passes on your hard earned wealth to who you want, when you want them to have it, the way you want them to have it, at the lowest possible cost (avoiding taxes and probate costs) with maximum protection from lawsuits, waste, and divorce.

Our elder law attorneys can help with the following:

• Wills
• Trusts
• Living Wills
• Powers of Attorney
• Revocable Trusts
• Irrevocable Trusts
• Estate Administration
• Probate
• Disability planning, including use of durable powers of attorney, living trusts, living wills, advanced directives and other means of delegating management and decision-making to another in case of in competency or incapacity Conservatorship and Guardianship
• Estate planning, including planning for the management of one's estate during life and its disposition on death through the use of trusts, wills and other planning documents
• Preservation/transfer of assets seeking to avoid spousal impoverishment when one spouse enters a nursing home
• Medicaid planning
• Social Security Disability claims and appeals
• Probate issues
• Administration and management of trusts and estate
• Long-term care placements in nursing home and life care communities
• Mental Health law matters

Probate

For those of you that only have a will, Hegwood & Associates, P.C. will help your executor probate your estate. We have the experience to handle these matters and the caring to help the families that have suffered a loss.

Additionally, some people die without a will and yet have property that needs to given to their heirs. There are special proceedings for this occurrence and Hegwood & Associates, P.C. has the ability to handle the complexities of this type of proceedings.

Also, families that have loved ones that do not have medical power of attorney and a statutory power of attorney and become incapacitated may need guardianships in order to take care of the medical and financial decisions of those loved ones.

Trust Administration

About Kim Hegwood

Kim has a BAA in Management Information Systems and a BS in Legal Studies from University of Houston. She graduated from South Texas College of Law and was admitted to the Bar in 1997. She belongs to the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, National Network of Estate Planning Attorneys and has been a volunteer at Bay Area Turning Point and the Annual Galveston County National Adoption Day.

Academic Credentials & Professionals Memberships

• Admitted: 1997, Texas and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
• Law School: South Texas College of Law, J.D., 1996
• College: University of Houston (B.B.A., 1991; B.S., 1993)
• Memberships: State Bar of Texas; College of the State Bar of Texas; National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.

We welcome the opportunity to talk with you and to discuss how we may be of service. Contact us today or complete our Request for Information form below.

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