Raymond H. Gouin

About Raymond H. Gouin

Raymond Gouin is a sole-practitioner estate law firm on St-Joseph Boulevard in Orleans, serving Ottawa area clients in both French and English. Raymond H. Gouin was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1978 and has focused the practice on estate planning and estate litigation. The estate planning side covers wills, powers of attorney for property and for personal care, estate administration, and probate, with attention to reducing probate fees where possible. The litigation side is limited to estate matters, including will and estate contests and related accounting disputes.

Gouin also serves as a deputy judge of the Superior Court of Justice, Small Claims Court, and completed training in mediation techniques through the University of Windsor, background the firm says helps in steering estate disputes toward a resolution rather than a prolonged court fight. From 1988 to 2008, Gouin was an instructor at the Bar Admission course, the training program the Law Society then ran for lawyers entering practice in Ontario. Office administration and accounting are handled by Jocelyne Rocque, who came to the firm after working in legal offices and in the provincial public sector, and the firm's English language matters are also handled by Jade Ahmad, a Nipissing University business administration graduate who worked in the financial sector before joining the firm and who also speaks Arabic.