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Daughtry & Farine: The Houston HOA Firm That Says It Represents Over 250 Community Associations

Origin and Background

Daughtry & Farine, P.C. is located at 17044 El Camino Real, Houston, TX 77058, in the Clear Lake area, confirmed through the firm’s own site, Martindale, and USAttorneys.com. Founded in 1982, the firm states it represents over 250 community associations throughout Texas. Attorney Trisha Taylor Farine earned her B.S. cum laude from the University of Houston in 1992 and her J.D. cum laude from the University of Houston Law Center in 1998, and is Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in both Commercial Real Estate Law and Residential Real Estate Law. She was named a Texas Monthly “Rising Star” in 2004 and 2005. Founding attorney Charles A. Daughtry and colleague Margaret R. Maddox both continue to practice at the firm alongside Farine.

Practice Concentration

The firm’s stated core focus is property owners association law — representing HOAs, condominium associations, and their management companies on assessment collection, deed restriction enforcement, and governance matters — alongside civil trial work, labor and employment, and general real estate. The firm’s site states its attorneys carry over 80 years of combined legal experience. See this Houston Real Estate & Property directory for how this HOA-focused, multi-attorney firm compares to other Harris County practices.

Notable Work / Track Record

As is typical for an HOA governance and collections practice, the firm does not publish a table of case verdicts or settlements, and Awesome Attorneys did not identify one. A named client testimonial states that Charles Daughtry “has taken one of our cases to the State Supreme Court with positive results,” according to LeJean Griffith, Vice President of Houston Community Management Services — a client-reported case history rather than an independently verified docket record. Margaret Maddox is separately credited by a client with representing the Clear Lake City Community Association, described as covering over 6,000 commercial and residential properties, for more than eight years.

Client Voice

The firm’s own site carries several named, attributed client testimonials. Gary Romer, president of the Waterford Harbor Homeowners Association, praises the firm’s prompt communication and says he “would strongly recommend this firm.” Rachel Morales, general manager of the Clear Lake City Community Association, credits Margaret Maddox and her team with “excellent legal representation and personalized attention.” Awesome Attorneys also identified one detailed negative review on FindLaw from an individual who was not the firm’s client but whose HOA referred a collections matter to the firm; the reviewer alleges discriminatory motive tied to their nationality and disputes the fees charged on a roughly $9,000 unpaid balance. Awesome Attorneys could not independently verify the specifics of this complaint or confirm the allegation, but is disclosing it directly rather than omitting it, consistent with house policy on adverse findings.

Beyond the Courtroom

The firm’s public materials emphasize its community-association client relationships over separate civic board service; Awesome Attorneys did not identify individual pro bono program detail or nonprofit board service documented for Farine, Daughtry, or Maddox outside their HOA-representation work.

Recognition for This Houston Real Estate Firm

Trisha Taylor Farine was named a Texas Monthly “Rising Star” in 2004 and 2005, and the firm received Martindale-Hubbell’s Client Champion award in 2021, based on the platform’s stated methodology of quantity and quality of client reviews. Farine’s Board Certification in both Commercial Real Estate Law and Residential Real Estate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization is the credential Awesome Attorneys treats as decisive for “specialist”-level language applied to her individually.

Texas Legal Backdrop

HOA and condominium association collections and enforcement work — the firm’s stated core practice — is governed primarily by Texas Property Code Chapter 209, the Texas Residential Property Owners Protection Act, which sets strict notice and payment-plan-offer requirements before an association can pursue assessment-lien foreclosure, and Chapter 82, the Texas Uniform Condominium Act, for condominium regimes specifically. Debt-collection communications by an association’s attorney may also implicate the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act depending on how the matter is structured. None of this is legal advice; a specific HOA assessment, collections, or governance matter should be evaluated by a licensed Texas attorney based on the actual facts involved.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

Daughtry & Farine’s clearest differentiator is HOA-specific scale and longevity: a firm operating since 1982 that states it represents more than 250 Texas community associations, with a board-certified attorney and named, multi-year client relationships with property managers overseeing thousands of units. The honest trade-off is that this is fundamentally an association-side collections and governance practice, and Awesome Attorneys identified one detailed, unverified negative review from an individual homeowner on the receiving end of a collections matter alleging unfair treatment — a dynamic inherent to HOA-attorney work representing the association rather than the individual owner. For a homeowners or condominium association board evaluating Houston counsel for governance and collections, Daughtry & Farine’s scale and board certification are a reasonable basis for a shortlist; an individual homeowner in a dispute with an HOA represented by this firm should understand the firm represents the association, not them.

Methodology and Sourcing

This profile was researched from Daughtry & Farine’s official website (daughtryfarine.com), Trisha Taylor Farine’s Martindale and Lawyers.com attorney profiles, the firm’s Martindale organization page, and FindLaw’s attorney directory listing, which includes the negative review referenced above.

Publisher Disclosure and Independence Notice

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