Your Legacy Legal Care

Focus and practice areas

This Houston firm concentrates on estate planning and the legal matters connected to it. The core work covers wills, trusts, and powers of attorney. The firm also handles probate and guardianship, which come into play after a person dies or loses the capacity to manage their own affairs. On its own account, Your Legacy Legal Care keeps its work to estate planning and the issues around it, and it most often bills on a flat fee basis.

Estate planning, in general terms, sets out who receives a person's property and who makes decisions if that person cannot. A will directs how assets pass after death and names an executor to carry that out. A trust holds assets under set terms and can let them pass outside the probate court. Powers of attorney name someone to act on financial or medical matters during life. The firm lists all of these, which points to work that covers both the plan itself and the roles that support it.

The practice areas page names a broad set of services inside that focus. These include asset protection, special needs planning, Medicaid planning, long term care planning, and business succession. The firm also lists elder law, elder care navigation, domestic asset protection trusts, family law, and a Children's Safeguard Program. In my opinion, those items still hang together as estate and elder law work, since most of them feed into planning for aging, incapacity, and the transfer of assets.

Several of the listed areas serve older clients and families with a disabled member. Special needs planning, for example, uses trusts that hold assets for a person while keeping their eligibility for public benefits intact. Medicaid planning and long term care planning deal with the cost of nursing and in-home care, and with the state rules that decide who qualifies for help. Elder care navigation and the Children's Safeguard Program point to services that go past drafting. Listing these points to work that continues as a household's needs change.

How the team is built

The site names three attorneys. Kim Hegwood is the Managing Attorney. Kim Creel is an Associate Attorney. Zach Ross is listed as an attorney, without a stated title on the pages our research reviewed.

Kim Hegwood graduated from South Texas College of Law in 1996, and her work centers on elder law, asset protection, estate planning, Medicaid crisis planning, probate, and guardianship. Kim Creel earned her Juris Doctor from the same law school in 1999, and her practice includes family law and probate. Both attorneys carry a probate background, which lines up with the firm's estate focus.

Behind the attorneys, the firm lists a support team with defined roles. Our research found a Medicaid Coordinator, a Senior Paralegal, a Client Services Director, and an Office Manager. As a reviewer, I read that structure as a sign the firm treats Medicaid and elder law files as ongoing work that needs coordination and follow-up over time.

Two attorneys who both know probate, plus a coordinator dedicated to Medicaid, point to depth in the parts of elder law that turn on paperwork and deadlines. Medicaid eligibility runs on documentation of income, assets, and transfers over a look-back window, so a dedicated coordinator has clear work to do. The named support staff cover the client-facing and administrative sides that keep long-running files moving.

Where the firm works

Your Legacy Legal Care runs four Texas offices. Three are in the Houston area: one near Clear Lake City, one in the Galleria area, and one off the Katy Freeway. The fourth is in Bay City, a town to the southwest.

The firm describes its clients as individuals across the Greater Houston area. Its stated work spans simple wills as well as family business succession plans. A four-office footprint across one metro helps elder law clients in particular. Many are older, and some have limited mobility, so a nearby office can be the difference between an easy visit and a hard one. Bay City extends that reach beyond the Houston core.

How matters are handled

Two details on the site speak to how the firm runs its files. The first is billing. The firm says it most often works on a flat fee basis, which sets the terms of a defined task at the start of the work. The second is upkeep. The firm says it regularly reviews client documents to keep them current.

Flat fee billing suits a lot of estate planning work, because a will package or a trust set has a defined scope that a firm can quote as a single engagement. That gives a client a clear view of the arrangement before signing on. Court-driven matters such as contested probate can run longer, since their length depends on the parties involved. The site's phrase most often fits that reality.

The upkeep habit matters in estate work. Plans can drift out of date when tax law shifts or when a family's circumstances and assets change. A standing review addresses that drift before it turns a valid document into a stale one. Probate and guardianship, two areas the firm names, move through the courts. A Texas probate matter opens in a county court, where a judge admits the will and appoints an executor before debts are paid and property passes to heirs. Guardianship runs a similar court path, with medical evidence and a hearing before a judge appoints a guardian. A firm that handles both the planning and the later court steps can carry a matter across both stages.

What the public record shows

Some details common to a full profile are absent from the pages our research reviewed. The firm publishes the trade name Your Legacy Legal Care with no company suffix such as PLLC or P.C., and those pages do not state a founding year. What the site does set out is concrete: a focus on estate planning and elder law, three named attorneys, a defined support team, and four Texas offices across the Houston area and Bay City.