Emily B. Taylor’s work is a client-focused practice involving estate planning, disability planning, elder law, and probate and trust administration. Emily builds relationships with clients leading them through their estate planning, including planning for loved ones with disabilities, through their own potential retirement and long-term care. She then guides the family, after the client’s demise, through the probate and estate administration process, easing the family’s mind by simplifying the post-mortem challenges.

I believe in serving the people around me and addressing each person in my path with empathy and sensitivity. I am grateful that the skills and knowledge I have developed over time grants me the opportunity to help bring people through big decisions and hard circumstances.

Trust and Estate Planning

  • Counsel and represent clients in achieving their testamentary goals by preparing and executing wills and trusts.
  • Prepare supplemental needs trusts including counseling clients in joining pooled trusts both during the client’s lifetime or as a testamentary gift after death.
  • Counsel clients and prepare wills and trusts with charitable beneficiaries.
  • Counsel clients regarding the availability and use of ABLE accounts.
  • Counsel clients regarding their lifetime planning including preparing and seeing through to execution of various ancillary documents including powers of attorney, HIPAA Releases, declarations of guardians (for adults and minors), and directives to physicians (living wills).

 

Long-Term Care Planning

  • Provide resources and guidance in long-term care planning including asset protection, gifting consequences, and eligibility for means-tested government benefits
  • Represents clients in applying and pursuing long-term care Medicaid in their homes, assisted living communities, and nursing communities.
  • Counsel clients regarding vulnerability to and avoidance of the Medicaid Estate Recovery Program.
  • Counsel clients in protecting their estates and estates of their loved ones from the Medicaid Estate Recovery Program.

 

Probate

  • Represents applicants, affiants, executors, and administrators in many counties in various types of court-ordered estate administration including independent administration, dependent administration, muniments of title, heirship judgments, declaratory judgments, and small estate affidavits.
  • Prepare family settlement agreements in the representation of beneficiaries, executors, and administrators.
  • Represents clients in pursuing withdrawals of claims from the Medicaid Estate Recovery Program.

 

Estate Administration

  • Represents clients in the administration of various trusts upon termination.
  • Represents beneficiaries and trustees in family settlement agreements.

Texas

AV Preeminent Peer-Reviewed® Martindale-Hubbell
Rising Aggie Lawyer, 2025
BL Rankings, Best Lawyers in America® Ones to Watch in Trust & Estates, Elder Law, 2022-2025
Texas Super Lawyers Rising Stars” Estate Planning & Probate, Elder Law, 2021-2025
Lawyer Monthly Women in Law Award: Wills & Probate, 2020

  • Texas Probate Law American Inn of Court
  • National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys
  • National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Texas Chapter Committee Member
  • Texas Bar College
  • Houston Bar Foundation Fellow
  • Houston Young Lawyers Association
  • Houston A&M Club
  • CityRise Church Bellaire
  • Business Networking International Group
  • Order of the Lytae Alumna
  • Houston Bar Association Elder Law Committee, Past Co-Chair
  • Texas Aggie Bar Association, Past President
  • Free the Captives Houston, Trained Volunteer

Texas A&M University
B.A. in English, 2011

South Texas College of Law
J.D., 2014