About Ronald

Ronald C. Cantin is the principal attorney at Pelican Succession Law. He is licensed to practice law in Louisiana (Louisiana State Bar Association member #39827) and concentrates his practice on Louisiana successions, forced heirship, mineral-rights succession, and ancillary proceedings for out-of-state heirs.

Ronald built Pelican Succession Law on a simple thesis: most Louisiana successions are predictable, the work is repetitive, and clients deserve a flat-fee price quoted up front rather than a meter that runs for nine months. The firm’s average uncontested judgment-of-possession turnaround is fourteen days. Cases with mineral-rights work, contested heirs, or out-of-state real property take longer, but the price is still quoted and capped before engagement.

His practice is built around three client profiles: families with a deceased loved one and a stalled property sale; out-of-state heirs trying to claim Louisiana mineral interests, real estate, or bank accounts; and attorneys at general-practice firms who refer their succession files because they don’t want to take them in-house.

Practice Concentrations

• Uncontested Louisiana succession — testate and intestate, both small successions and full successions.
• Ancillary Louisiana succession — for out-of-state primary domiciles with Louisiana property.
• Mineral-rights succession — oil & gas royalties, working interests, and suspended-royalty fund recovery.
• Contested succession — will contests, capacity disputes, undue influence, forced heirship litigation.
• Complex multi-state & high-value successions — estates over $2M, multiple jurisdictions, business interests.
• Stalled real-estate closings — expedited filings to clear title before a closing date is lost.

Areas of Knowledge

Ronald’s practice draws on Louisiana civil-law traditions that distinguish succession in Louisiana from probate in the other forty-nine states. Areas of substantive expertise include: forced heirship and the legitime, usufruct and naked ownership, particular and universal legacies, the descriptive list and sworn detailed descriptive list, judgments of possession, ancillary procedure under La. C.C.P. arts. 3401–3405, small-succession affidavits under La. C.C.P. arts. 3431–3434, the Louisiana Mineral Code as applied to inherited interests, parish-by-parish clerk procedure across all sixty-four parishes, intestate distribution, olographic and notarial testaments, and the rights of Louisiana heirs against out-of-state executors.

Bar Admissions & Credentials

• Louisiana State Bar Association — Member #39827 (active, in good standing).
• Licensed only in Louisiana. For matters requiring counsel in another jurisdiction, Pelican coordinates with attorneys in the destination state.

How Ronald Practices

Three commitments structure every engagement:

• Fixed-fee, quoted in writing. No hourly billing on routine successions. The number you see in your quote is the number you pay.
• Two-business-hour first response. An attorney — not an intake assistant — replies to every form submission within two business hours during business days.
• Direct attorney access. Clients work with the attorney handling their file. No hand-offs to a paralegal you’ve never met.

Contact Ronald

The fastest way to reach the firm is the free-quote intake form. New clients typically receive a fixed-fee quote within 24 hours. For attorney-to-attorney referrals or media inquiries, please use the same form and indicate the inquiry type in the message field.