Richmond TX Legal Representation for the Greater Houston Area and All of Texas
Since 1977, Showalter Colgin & Davis, PLLC has provided comprehensive legal services to landowners, families, and businesses across the Houston area. Our team handles complex eminent domain cases, estate planning, personal injury claims, and more with personalized attention and proven results.
Legal Counsel That Puts You First
At Showalter Colgin & Davis, PLLC, we’ve spent nearly five decades helping clients in Richmond and across Greater Houston resolve their most pressing legal matters. Our practice focuses on areas where the outcome directly impacts your financial security and peace of mind: eminent domain proceedings, estate planning, probate administration, personal injury recovery, real estate transactions, business disputes, and intellectual property protection.
You’ll work with experienced attorneys who take time to understand your specific situation and explain your options in straightforward terms. Whether you’re a landowner dealing with a government acquisition, a family managing probate issues, or a business owner protecting intellectual property, we bring the same level of commitment to every case.
Our Practice Areas
We concentrate our practice in eight core areas where we’ve developed deep knowledge and successful track records.
Eminent Domain Law
When the government or utility companies want to take your property for public use, you have rights that deserve protection. We represent landowners, homeowners, and commercial property owners in securing fair compensation for acquisitions, easements, and partial takings. Our attorneys analyze property values, negotiate with condemning authorities, and litigate when necessary to ensure you receive just compensation for what you’re losing.
Estate Planning
Every family is different, and we believe your estate plan should be too. We take the time to understand your situation, your relationships, and what you want for the people you care about. From wills and trusts to powers of attorney and medical directives, we prepare documents that reflect your actual wishes, not a one-size-fits-all template. We also help families navigate elder law questions, think through whether a trust makes sense for them, and build strategies that protect their legacy for years to come.
Planning for the future is deeply personal, and we treat it that way. Our attorneys bring years of estate planning experience alongside a genuine commitment to understanding what matters most to you and your family. We prepare wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and medical directives tailored to your circumstances. Whether you are starting from scratch, revisiting an outdated plan, or helping an aging parent get their affairs in order, we are here to guide you with care and expertise at every step.
Some of the most important conversations we have with clients are the ones that happen before any documents are drafted. We ask about your family, your wishes, and what you want people to know when you are no longer able to speak for yourself. From those conversations, we build estate plans that are complete, clear, and deeply personal, including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, medical directives, and strategies for protecting wealth across generations. Our clients trust us not just because of our experience, but because we treat their families like our own.
Behind every estate plan is a family with its own story, priorities, and concerns. We take the time to hear yours. Our attorneys have guided clients through some of life’s most significant decisions, from first-time planning to caring for aging parents to protecting a family business built over generations. We prepare wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and medical directives that are thoughtfully crafted around your circumstances, with careful attention to minimizing taxes and preserving what you have worked hard to build.
Copyrights & Trademarks
Your creative work and brand identity have value that deserves legal protection. We assist clients with trademark registration, copyright protection, licensing agreements, and infringement disputes. Our copyrights and trademarks practice helps businesses and individuals secure and defend their intellectual property rights.
Personal Injury Law
Serious injuries from accidents, negligence, or intentional harm can derail your life and create financial hardship. Our personal injury practice helps injured clients recover compensation for medical expenses, lost wages, and pain and suffering. We also represent survivors of church, clergy, and laity sexual abuse in seeking accountability and justice from institutions that failed to protect vulnerable individuals.
Real Estate Law
Property transactions and disputes require careful attention to contracts, titles, and Texas property law. Our real estate services cover purchase and sale agreements, boundary disputes, title issues, and landlord-tenant matters. We help clients avoid costly mistakes and resolve conflicts when they arise.
Business Law
From startup formation to contract disputes, businesses need legal counsel who understand commercial operations. We assist with entity selection, operating agreements, business startups and transactions, and commercial and contract litigation. When partnership or shareholder disagreements threaten your company, we handle partnership and shareholder litigation to protect your interests.
Probate
Losing someone you love is hard enough. The legal process that follows should not make it harder. When a family is facing probate, they are often dealing with grief, uncertainty, and decisions they have never had to make before. We are here to take that burden off their shoulders. Our attorneys guide executors and beneficiaries through every stage of the Texas probate process, from court filings and creditor claims to the final distribution of assets. When disputes arise, including will contests or concerns about how a trustee or executor has handled their responsibilities, we are prepared to advocate firmly on your behalf.
The period after losing a loved one often brings a long list of legal responsibilities that families are not prepared for. Court proceedings, creditor claims, asset transfers, and family disagreements can all surface at once, at the worst possible time. Our attorneys understand what executors and beneficiaries are up against, and we bring both experience and genuine care to every probate matter we handle. Whether you need straightforward guidance through the Texas probate process or representation in a will contest or fiduciary dispute, we are the kind of firm that stays with you from the first conversation to the final resolution.
Probate can feel like an overwhelming process, especially when you are grieving and unfamiliar with what the law requires. We work closely with executors and beneficiaries to make Texas probate as straightforward as possible, handling court proceedings, creditor claims, and asset distribution so families can focus on what matters. We also have deep experience in contested estate matters, including will disputes and claims involving trustees or executors who have not fulfilled their obligations, and we approach every case with both the skill and the sensitivity the situation calls for.
Mediation
Not every dispute needs to go to trial. Showalter Colgin & Davis, PLLC offers professional mediation services for parties who want a faster, more affordable path to resolution. From personal injury claims and eminent domain disputes to business conflicts and civil matters, our team brings the legal knowledge and certified mediation experience needed to help both sides reach an agreement that sticks.
Why Clients Choose Our Firm
Our attorneys bring nearly 50 years of combined experience to every case, with particular depth in eminent domain proceedings where government agencies and utilities have significant resources. We maintain offices in Richmond and serve clients throughout Fort Bend, Harris, and surrounding counties. This local presence means we understand the specific challenges property owners face with infrastructure projects affecting the Houston area, from highway expansions to pipeline installations to municipal utility work.
Our attorneys bring nearly 50 years of combined experience to every case, with particular depth in eminent domain proceedings where government agencies and utilities have significant resources. We maintain offices in Richmond and serve clients throughout Fort Bend, Harris, and surrounding counties. This local presence means we understand the specific challenges property owners face with infrastructure projects affecting the Houston area, from highway expansions to pipeline installations to municipal utility work.
Communities We Serve
Our practice extends across Greater Houston, representing clients in Fort Bend County, Harris County, Brazoria County, and Galveston County. We regularly work with property owners, families, and businesses in Houston, Katy, Sugar Land, Pearland, Rosenberg, Stafford, Missouri City, Pasadena, Tomball, Bellaire, Cinco Ranch, Needville, and dozens of other communities throughout the region.
Whether you own agricultural land, a commercial building, or a residential home, you’ll receive the same quality representation regardless of your location in Texas.
Current Infrastructure Projects Affecting Property Owners
Major highway improvements, utility expansions, and flood control projects continue to impact landowners across the Houston area. Recent developments include TxDOT upgrades to SH 71 in Bastrop and ongoing right-of-way acquisitions for regional mobility projects.
Property owners should understand that eminent domain law provides specific protections, even when projects serve legitimate public purposes. You have the right to challenge inadequate offers, present evidence of your property’s true value, and receive compensation for all damages, including loss of access, decreased property value, and relocation costs. We stay current on infrastructure projects that may affect our clients and monitor legislative developments in Texas’s eminent domain law.
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