Hegwood Law Group - Kim Hegwood Houston Elder Law Attorney

Focusing exclusively on elder law, asset protection planning,
estate planning and related practice areas.

Serving the Counties of Harris, Matagorda, Galveston, Brazoria & Fort Bend

950 Gemini Street | Houston, TX 77058-2730
Phone: (281) 218-0880

Elder Law Attorney Kim Hegwood, of Hegwood Law Group, focuses exclusively on elder law, asset protection planning, estate planning and related practice areas. Hegwood Law Group is also a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA), Wealth Counsel and Elder Counsel, and send out a regular newsletter with legal advice to help you protect your family and your wealth. Elder Law Attorney Kim Hegwood

The goal of Hegwood Law Group 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 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.

Hegwood Law Group can help with:

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
Probate issues
Administration and management of trusts and estate
Mental Health law matters

Probate Couple meeting with elder law attorney.

For those of you that only have a will, Hegwood Law Group will help your executor probate your estate. We have lawyers experienced to handle these matters and the caring to help the families that have suffered a loss.

Additionally, some people die without a will, but have property that needs to be given to their heirs. There are special proceedings for this occurrence and Hegwood Law Group has the ability to handle the complexities of this type of proceedings.

Also, families with loved ones that do not have a 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. We can help.

Trust Administration

For those families that have trusts, Hegwood Law Group has the ability to administer the trust after the death of a Grantor. The ability to administer trusts correctly enables the beneficiaries to receive their trust assets without problems and performed correctly.

About Kim Hegwood

Kim has a B.A.A. in Management Information Systems and a B.S. 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
A Certified Dementia Practitioner & NCCDP Certified Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Care Trainer.

We welcome the opportunity to talk with you and to discuss how we may be of service. Contact Hegwood Law Group at (281) 218-0880 or complete our Request for Information form below.