Kate Eckhart

Kate Mains Eckhart is as an associate in the firm’s Beaumont office. Kate works in the firm’s business section with a concentration in real estate and corporate transactions, tax, estate planning and probate, oil and gas law, and probate and guardianship litigation.

While in law school at South Texas College of Law, Kate served on the Editorial Board of the South Texas Law Review; as a law clerk in the United States Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Texas; and as a research assistant to the school’s professors updating hornbooks on federal income taxation and estate and gift taxation. She was a recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award in Consumer Transactions and a Dean’s Merit Scholarship Recipient. Prior to joining MehaffyWeber, she served as an Associate in the Global Tax Services department of PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP.

South Texas College of Law

J.D. (2013)

Honors: Cum Laude

College of the Holy Cross

B.A. (2009) | Economics

2005 - 2009

Honors: Cum Laude

Activities: College Honors Program, Fósforo Spanish Literary Journal, Spanish Club, Foreign Language Assistant Cultural Liaison, Copy Editor for The Crusader Newspaper

Associate

PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP

2013 - 2015

The Art of Giving, Art Museum of Southeast Texas

July 24, 2018

State Bar of Texas  # 24087961

Member

Current

Activities: Member, Real Estate, Probate & Trust Section Committee Member, Tax Section

Jefferson County Bar Association

Member

Current

Texas

Since 2013

Estate Planning

Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills

Probate

Probate Administration, Probate Litigation, Will Contests

Real Estate Law

Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law

Business Law

Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes

Energy, Oil & Gas Law

Utilities

Tax Law

Business Taxes, Criminal Tax Litigation, Estate Tax Planning, Income Taxes, International Taxes, Payroll Taxes, Property Taxes, Sales Taxes, Tax Appeals, Tax Audits, Tax Planning