Katherine Boyd Law

Focus and practice areas

Katherine Boyd Law is an estate planning and probate practice in Houston, Texas. The work splits into two related areas. On the planning side, the firm prepares wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and medical directives.

The probate side handles the steps that follow. That includes will probate, support for executors, and estate administration under Texas law. These are the tasks families face after a death, and the firm takes them on start to finish.

The firm serves clients throughout the Houston area from its office on Echo Lane. In my opinion, the pairing of planning and probate under one roof is a practical fit. A client who sets up a will can return to the same attorney when it is time to administer an estate.

Who runs the firm

Katherine Boyd runs the practice. She is a partner at Steed Barker Boyd Madden, and the firm carries her name.

Her path into estate work is worth noting. She began in 2011 as an oil and gas title transactional attorney, a field built on careful reading of ownership records and property interests. In 2020 she added estate planning and probate to her practice.

That title background has a clear bearing on estate work. Both areas turn on tracing who owns what and passing it cleanly to the next holder. A client with mineral interests or real property in an estate benefits from an attorney who has read title for a living.

Credentials and licensing

Boyd is licensed to practice in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. That three-state reach can matter for clients whose property or family ties cross state lines, which is common across the southern plains.

She earned her J.D. cum laude from California Western School of Law. Her undergraduate degree, a B.A., is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

How the firm handles cost and access

The firm offers flat-fee pricing for most estate planning services. That structure tells a client the cost of a will or trust up front, before the work starts.

For estate planning, where the scope is often known at the outset, a fixed fee gives clients a number they can plan around. As a reviewer, I read that choice as a straightforward way to set expectations early. It suits the kind of documents this firm prepares.

The firm sees clients by appointment, Monday through Friday. The single-attorney setup means the person a client meets is the person handling the file.

What the record shows

The firm's public presence is focused and consistent. Its stated services match the two areas Boyd practices, with no scattering into unrelated fields.

The firm maintains an Instagram and a Facebook profile alongside its website. Its contact points route to both a Katherine Boyd Law address and the Steed Barker Boyd Madden firm, which fits Boyd's role as a partner there.

In my opinion, the firm reads as what it says it is: a Houston estate planning and probate practice led by one attorney with a title-law background. Clients looking for wills, trusts, powers of attorney, or help probating an estate in Texas will find a practice built squarely around those needs. The three-state license and the flat-fee approach round out a clear picture of how Boyd works.