Texas Elder Lawyers

Elder Law

3809 W Waco Dr, Waco, TX 76710

P. James Rainey is a founding attorney at Rainey & Rainey. He proudly handles practice areas that include elder law, estate planning, and personal injury cases. With over two decades of experience in the legal field and a board certification in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, he has a great deal to offer his clients. James earned his Juris Doctorate from Baylor University School of Law in 1994. James is a former president of the Waco/McLennan County Bar Association and the Waco Chamber of Commerce Leadership program, and is the current president-elect for the Midway ISD Foundation

Elder Law

607 Ladin Ln, Lakeway, TX 78734, USA

Area of Practice: Special Needs Planning & Elder Law Melissia Riddle returned to her home-state of Texas in 2021 after practicing law in St. Louis, Missouri for over two decades where her practice centered on estate planning, probate, elder law, and fiduciary litigation with an emphasis on special needs planning and alternatives to guardianships. Melissia began her career as a prosecutor and then moved into private practice where she focused on complex estate planning and fiduciary litigation with the objective of maintaining familial relationships through the development of well-tailored estate plans taking into consideration varying family dynamics. After having a son with special needs, Melissia realized the unique and often overwhelming challenges faced by parents in planning for the care and support of their children with special needs, which go beyond special needs trusts and includes planning which extends well beyond the lifetime of the parents. Her passion is helping families with children or other loved ones with special needs successfully navigate the myriad of legal hurdles they face, including crafting specialized plans that not only protect their loved ones but also encourage and support their unique abilities as they strive towards their own life goals and aspirations. She is a frequent speaker on special needs planning on both the state and national levels.

Elder Law

4131 Trowbridge Drive, El Paso, TX 79903

Stephanie Townsend Allala is a veteran journalist and El Paso Elder law attorney. After two decades in radio, television, and newspaper, she took her advocacy in a different direction- helping the disenfranchised. Ms. Townsend Allala graduated from the University of Texas School of Law at Austin, where she was the Ray and Kay Bailey Hutchison Scholarship recipient. She was also Outstanding Graduate in Broadcasting at University of Texas at El Paso. She devotes her life to public service, and has served as the President and or Director of all of the following organizations: The El Paso Women’s Bar Association, El Paso Women’s Bar Auxiliary, El Paso Bar Association, El Paso Press Club, El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, El Paso Association of Hispanic Journalists, and CASA of El Paso. She also spent four years as a Director on the Board of Nazareth Care Facility, a non-profit charitable skilled nursing facility. It was her work on the Board of Directors for Nazareth that helped her to understand the difficulties in placement of certain individuals with special capacity issues. For example, many times persons with advanced dementia, schizophrenia and chronic psychosis find themselves suddenly homeless, because there are few facilities capable of caring for people with advanced dementia and mental illness. Ms. Townsend Allala helps these families find permanent homes for their loved ones. Ms. Townsend Allala is a proud mother of two daughters, Jessica Kludt, who is an attorney and Vice President of Townsend Allala & Associates, and Amelia Jordan, who works and studies in Los Angeles. Stephanie’s work as advocate for a transparent, honest and open government led her to file the most famous Open Records Request now pending in Texas. It resulted in litigation which is now pending before the Texas Supreme Court, City of El Paso v. Allala. She was named El Paso/El Chuco Person of the Year for 2014 for her fight to bring honesty to El Paso government.