CP&A
CHATHAM PIER & ASSOCIATES

One firm for your taxes, notarizations, books, and litigation support.

Business is war. Win it with veterans.

Chatham, Pier & Associates is a Houston firm built on one promise: upfront pricing and quick, accurate results. Every service runs the same way — a simple intake, a clear price before work begins, and delivery you can plan around.

Get a tax estimate Book a notarization
Houston, TXServing Harris County & beyond
4 service linesTax · Notary · Bookkeeping · Litigation support
Priced upfrontNo work starts until you approve the fee
Alaina Pier-Bramlett, partner at Chatham, Pier and Associates
Alaina Pier-Bramlett
Partner, CP&A
United States Air Force, 97-18

Start here — pick what you need

Each service has its own intake, but they all work identically: send your information, get an upfront price, approve it, and we handle the rest.

Services

Every engagement is priced before work begins. Tell us what you need and you'll get one clear total to approve — travel, timing, and volume already factored in. No work starts until you say yes.

Tax preparation

Via TaxAnchor — CP&A's intake portal

Upload your documents securely to TaxAnchor and our pricing engine builds your estimate from what you actually have. You receive one upfront total — no line-by-line breakdown — and you approve the final fee before anything is prepared or filed.

How pricing works

  • Every return starts from a simple federal return as the base
  • Your total reflects the forms your return actually needs — extra W-2s, 1099s, K-1s, investment sales, rentals, and self-employment
  • State and multi-state returns are factored into the same single total
  • Prior-year returns, bookkeeping cleanup, and foreign income are priced on review
  • Submit through TaxAnchor to get your number — it's quoted before you commit to anything

Turnaround & terms

  • Standard turnaround: 5 days
  • Expedited: 2 days for a flat rush fee, included in your estimate total
  • Paper file / printed copy available on request
  • Documents encrypted in transit and at rest; retained 7 years per policy, then securely deleted
  • No return is prepared or filed until you approve the engagement terms and final fee
Get my tax estimate in TaxAnchor

Don't want to upload documents yet? Build your own estimate

If you'd rather not upload your tax documents, you can still get a price. Select the document types and situations that apply to you and set the quantities — your estimated total updates as you go. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is sent; the estimate is yours to take into intake when you're ready.

Income
Additional W-2sYour first W-2 is included in every return — count only the extra ones. 0
Interest & dividend forms — 1099-INT / 1099-DIVBank interest and investment dividends. Count one per form. 0
Retirement & Social Security forms — 1099-R / SSA-1099Pensions, IRA distributions, and Social Security benefits. Count one per form. 0
Schedule K-1sFrom partnerships, S-corporations, or estates and trusts. Count one per K-1. 0
Deductions & credits
Investments & business
Rental properties — Schedule ECount one per property you rent out. 0
Additional state returns — multi-stateExtra states beyond the first, if you lived or worked in more than one. Count one per extra state. 0
Life situations & items priced on review
Options
Estimated total
$150

This figure is an estimate based on your selections. Your final price is confirmed after review at intake — and no documents are uploaded in this tool.

Start your intake

Your estimate carries into intake, where CP&A confirms the final price before any work begins.

Notary services

Texas Gov. Code § 406.024

Mobile and remote notarization across Houston and Harris County — acknowledgments, jurats, oaths, affidavits, certified copies, loan closings, and estate-planning signings. Also available live on the Notarize platform.

What we notarize

  • Acknowledgments, jurats, oaths, and affidavits
  • Certified copies
  • Remote online notarization (RON) sessions
  • Real estate loan closing packages — local travel included, up to 2 signers
  • Seller-only and cash-out closings
  • Estate planning and trust signing bundles

Act fees are set by Texas law (Gov. Code § 406.024). Submit the intake form and your estimate gives you one total — act fees and travel together — before you book.

Travel (separate, non-statutory)

  • Standard local trips (up to 10 mi)
  • Extended trips (11–25 mi)
  • Long-distance trips (26+ mi, mileage-based)
  • Hospital and care facility visits
  • Jail and detention facility visits
  • After-hours, weekend, and holiday appointments

Travel is folded into the single total in your estimate — you'll see the full price before anything is scheduled.

Upfront travel-fee policy: travel fees are due before departure and are non-refundable if the notarization cannot be completed on arrival — for example, missing ID, paperwork not ready, or a signer unable to sign.
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Bookkeeping

QuickBooks Online · Xero

Ongoing books for small businesses that want clean numbers without hiring in-house — plus the cleanup work that gets messy books current again.

What we handle

  • Monthly bookkeeping and bank reconciliation
  • New-company setup and chart of accounts
  • Cleanup and catch-up for behind books
  • Financial statements you can hand to a lender or tax preparer

How pricing works

Bookkeeping is quoted monthly based on transaction volume and complexity. Send us a note about your business and current books, and you'll get a written quote before anything starts — the same upfront rule as every CP&A service.

Get my bookkeeping estimate

Litigation support

For law firms, attorneys & individuals

Service of process, skip tracing, and document retrieval — run with the same discipline as our notary work, with status updates as attempts are made. All jobs are prepaid by invoice before work starts.

Service of process — Harris County

  • Routine — first attempt within 4 business days
  • Rush — first attempt within 1 business day
  • Additional attempts and additional locations when a serve needs them
  • Temporary restraining orders (TROs)
  • Certified mail and document posting
  • Sit & serve for evasive persons, and witness testimony

Routine and rush include 1 citation with petition or subpoena, 4 attempts, 20 pages (additional pages billed per page), 1 address, status updates, and notarization as needed. Send the job and we'll quote your total before you prepay.

Tracing, retrieval & other counties

  • Skip tracing — a per-person report
  • Document and evidence pick-up
  • Occupational license filing
  • Criminal video downloads
  • Routine service in Fort Bend, Waller, Montgomery, Liberty, Bexar, and Travis counties
  • Elsewhere in Texas — quoted by time and mileage, or subbed out
Send a job & get my estimate

Get your price — before you commit

Submit through the intake for your service and you'll receive one upfront total to approve — no obligation until you say yes.

Tax preparation

Upload your documents in TaxAnchor and the pricing engine returns your total.

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Notary services

Tell us the document, the signers, and where and when — we reply with your total, travel included.

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Bookkeeping

Tell us about your business and your books — we reply with a written monthly quote.

Get my estimate →

Litigation support

Send the papers, the address, and any deadline — we confirm your total before you prepay.

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Tax clients: prefer not to upload your documents yet? Build an estimate by selecting your document types instead →

One process, every service

Whichever line you use, the steps never change — so you always know where your matter stands.

1

Intake

Submit through the branded portal or form for that service — TaxAnchor for tax, the intake form for notary, email for bookkeeping and litigation support.

2

Upfront price

Your submission is priced automatically from our rate schedule and reviewed by CP&A — you see one total to approve.

3

Approve & prepay

You approve the fee, invoiced through Wave. No payment, no work — and no surprise bills later.

4

We do the work

On a stated clock: 5-day standard tax turnaround, scheduled signings, first-attempt windows on serves.

5

Delivery

Filed return, executed documents, served papers with proof, or books you can rely on.

About CP&A

Chatham, Pier & Associates is a Houston practice bringing bookkeeping, tax preparation, notary services, and litigation support under one roof — one brand, one process, one standard of upfront pricing across all of it.

CP&A's notary services are performed by a commissioned Texas notary public, live on the Notarize platform for remote online notarization. CP&A prepares taxes through ProSeries, keeps books in QuickBooks Online and Xero, and invoices every engagement through Wave.

Ways to pay

  • Professional invoice through Wave (all services; prepayment required before work starts)
  • Cash App — $chathampierandassoc (notary services)

Contact

Common questions

How do I get started?

Use the intake for your service: TaxAnchor for tax preparation, the notary intake form for notarizations, or email info@chathampierandassociates.com for bookkeeping and litigation support. You'll receive an upfront price to approve before work begins.

When do I pay?

Before work starts. Every engagement is invoiced through Wave and prepaid — for notary appointments, the travel fee is due before departure. In exchange, the price you approve is the price you pay; if something about a job changes the scope, you'll see a revised price and approve it first.

Is my tax information secure in TaxAnchor?

TaxAnchor requires sign-in, encrypts documents in transit and at rest, and uses them solely to prepare your estimate and review your filing — never to train public AI models. Documents are retained for 7 years under CP&A's retention policy and then securely deleted.

What areas do you serve?

Tax preparation and remote online notarization are available anywhere — RON sessions are conducted online under Texas law. Mobile notary and process service are based in Houston and Harris County, with routine process service also covering Fort Bend, Waller, Montgomery, and Liberty counties, plus Bexar and Travis counties.

What if a notarization can't be completed when you arrive?

The statutory act fee isn't charged for a signature that doesn't happen — but the travel fee, paid upfront, is non-refundable if the signing can't be completed on arrival (missing ID, paperwork not ready, or a signer unable to sign). Having ID and documents ready is the best way to avoid that.

Your information is protected

Your privacy and security are built into how we work. Chatham, Pier & Associates maintains a Written Information Security Plan (WISP), developed in line with IRS and FTC guidance for tax professionals, that governs how client information is collected, stored, and protected. Documents shared through our secure intake portals are encrypted in transit and at rest, and access to client records is restricted — you can see only your own information. Client records are retained for seven years and then securely deleted. We never sell your information, and it is never used to train public AI models. Questions about how we protect your data? Contact us at info@chathampierandassociates.com.