Chelsea H. Overhuls

Chelsea focuses entirely on estate planning and private wealth and has done so her entire career. Her clients include professionals, business owners, entrepreneurs, executives, executors, trustees, multigenerational families, and more. Chelsea regularly meets with clients in Houston but has numerous clients in other Texas cities.

As family counsel, Chelsea provides clients with a clear explanation of the transfer tax and related laws while at the same time prioritizing the client’s financial security and appetite for complexity vs. simplicity. When appropriate and desired, she meets the next generation, educates them, and integrates them into the family plan and goals.

• Represents high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients in utilizing sophisticated estate planning techniques, such as family limited partnerships, intentionally defective grantor trusts, grantor-retained annuity trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, and private foundations.
• Advises clients across a broad net-worth spectrum regarding basic testamentary and incapacity planning documents.
• Represents executors and trustees in estate and trust administration matters.
• Advises clients regarding generation-skipping transfer tax planning, including analysis of the impact of trust modification, division, or decanting on GST exemption.
• Negotiates and drafts premarital and postnuptial agreements.
• Advises clients regarding creditor and asset protection planning.

• The Best Lawyers in America®, Trusts and Estates (2025)
• Super Lawyers® Texas Rising Star, Estate & Probate (2021-2022)
• Best Lawyers in America® Ones to Watch, Trusts and Estates (2022-2026)
• Houstonia Magazine, Top Lawyer, Estate Planning (2019, 2022-2023)