Parental Alienation: How you can help the professionals get it right
Understanding Parental Alienation is crucial if you feel you’re being targeted and your child is suffering as a result. In this presentation, Brian Ludmer explains the different diagnoses so you can organize your family history and the development of the PA dynamic, how to assemble your data, documents, and witnesses, typical target parent mistakes you can avoid, and much more.
Attorney Brian Ludmer and Lynn Steinberge, Ph.D.: explore reunification therapy and the impacts of parental alienation
Slam and Gavel have the opportunity to speak to attorney Brian Ludmer and Lynn Steinberg, Ph.D., on their podcast. Brian Ludmer is a Canadian attorney whose practice focuses on high-conflict custody battles, dental of parenting, and Parental Alientation, as well as high-net-worth disputes. Lynn Steinberg has worked with families and provides a four-day reunification therapy.
Brian Ludmer Speaks on divorce with Andy Martens and Mary Kovacs
Brian Ludmer weighs in about divorce, co-parenting, and parental alienation on the Andy Martens Show. Brian shares his views on equal-shared parenting and high-conflict divorce in this in-depth interview.
Canadian attorney Brian Ludmer explains how parents can fight parental alienation in court using case law jurisprudence to strengthen their position and get the results they need.
While LudmerLaw will continue to provide all its normal services, the office will focus on providing its services remotely, especially for non-essential meetings. Clients can still arrange in-person meetings with lawyers and support staff, as necessary, but LudmerLaw asks that clients DO NOT visit the office if they are experiencing flu-like symptoms or have traveled outside Canada within two weeks of their visit.
Brian is an advisory board member to the Parental Alienation Awareness Organization and the International Support Network for Alienated Families, as well as a co-founder of Lawyers for Shared Parenting. Brian was one of the drafters of Canada’s proposed equal shared parenting amendment, Bill C-560. Brian is the legal editor of the PASG bi-monthly newsletter and provides strategic advice to parents and lawyers on cases of PA across North America and even around the world.
At the Philadelphia conference held by PASG in 2019, there was an extraordinary plenary session where there were multiple presentations given by leading members of PASG in honour/memory of the first generation of pioneers in this difficult area of professional practice.
This webinar, hosted by the Canadian Association for Equality on June 17, 2021, provides strategies for parents and children to stay healthy and positive during high conflict separation or divorce. As part of the “Healthy Fathers. Healthy Families” event, the webinar includes a panel of experts including: Susan S. Chuang, PhD, is Associate Professor of Family Relations & Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph, Brian Ludmer, a prominent Toronto family law lawyer and founder of LudmerLaw, and Dr. Robert Whitley, the Principal Investigator of the Social Psychiatry Research and Interest Group at the Douglas Hospital Research Center. Learn more at www.equalitycanada.com.
Lawyer Brian Ludmer gives an introduction to the pros and cons of judicial interviews of children in family law cases. Ludmer says that judicial interviews of children should only be used as a last resort, but also explains the best way to handle these interviews if they become necessary.
In an April 7 decision in Ontario Family Court, Justice T. Price ordered that Julie Natasha Young-Marcellin, represented by Ludmer Law, would receive custody of her child with Marcel Andre Marcellin. The judge also ordered that Marcellin would not have visitation rights for at least 60 days after returning the child.
This was a live interview with Attorney Brian Ludmer, an expert in parental alienation. In this interview, Dr. Petra Deeter asked him for his advice on the legal strategy for handling a parental alienation court case and what alienated parents should do to help the professionals in their case.
The CFO should be an integral part of, and active participant in the mergers and acquisitions process for three main reasons:
1. A CFO will typically bring an independent and objective perspective to the strategic analysis of the proposed transaction, with greater emphasis on rigorous financial modelling and testing of assumptions.
2 CFOs will bring a unique skill-set that will enable them to spot issues that might be missed by operational executives.
3. The CFO’s detailed understanding of the existing business will enable him or her to comment on the financial and operational integration of an acquisition target or the financial effect of a disposition.
To say that 21st century technology has disrupted the way we conduct business and interact with one another is an understatement. Especially during the current shelter-at-home orders, technology has made our lives easier, placing more of our daily activities to the online web and being able to communicate across long distances.
CALLING ALL PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, STEP-PARENTS, PARENTAL FIGURES, FAMILY SERVICE PROVIDERS, EDUCATORS AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY…
Key parts of this decision were delivered orally in court to the parties, including their sixteen-year old daughter, who was represented at the motion by counsel. As such, part of these reasons have been written in a way that I hope A.R. will understand.
In submissions to the House of Commons and Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Ludmer, principal of LudmerLaw, said the Act “is not working and not meeting the needs of the children it’s meant to protect.” “This debate can basically be summarized as the battle between myths and facts,” he said.
“There is slow progress in the actual decided cases in that direction, but it’s spotty, and it’s inconsistent, and it can depend on which province you are in, whether you are in an urban centre or a more rural forum where there’s less diversity amongst judges,” says Ludmer, principal of LudmerLaw.
In early 2014, Maurice Vellacott, a Conservative MP for Saskatoon, introduced a bill to amend Canada’s Divorce Act of 1985.
On today’s show, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms applies to intervene in the appeal of a BC ruling ordering hormone treatment on a child without parent’s consent.
770 CHQR Calgary, a well-known talk radio show. He was interviewed on equal parenting.
17 August, 2019
Last night’s call with Brian Ludmer was one of the best calls we have had in the 7 years of our calls. The information he gave on so many topics was phenomenal. Many have emailed and posted online the helpfulness this call was for them in their situations and their cases. We want to thank Brian for all the work he put into this call and his dedication to the cause.
On Sunday, July 7, 2019 at 8 PM EDT, Brian Ludmer, B. Com, LLB will be presenting these issues on our international seminar call.
Brian Ludmer, Advisory Counsel (Canadian Association for Equality)
A review of arguments against appointing an attorney for the child.By Brian Ludmer, B.Com., L.L.B., LudmerLaw, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Brian@ludmerlaw.com
Brian Ludmer, B.Com., L.L.B., LudmerLaw speaking at the PASG 2019 Conference.
Friday May 31st, 2019
PASG2019 will take place at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, which is adjacent to the Philadelphia International Airport.
Just wanted to send a heads up to let everyone know we now have a facebook page for our upcoming Parental/Grandparent Alienation and Equal Shared Parenting Symposium we will be having in Frankfort, Kentucky on Oct 4th and Oct 5th. Please share with others too you think may be interested. I thought it would be a great place to chat together, ask questions or keep up through facebook. Getting really excited about our events!!!
It is my pleasure to invite you to Canada’s biggest ever conference on the issues facing boys, men and fathers.
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Parental alienation is a form of family violence and child abuse that occurs when one parent turns the couple’s child against the other parent, typically caused by separation or divorce.
With so many intense feelings to cope with, one parent may consciously or unconsciously encourage the children to unjustly reject the other parent. It can have negative and long lasting effects on both children and parents.
In the coming months, Canadian psychologist Barbara Fidler and law professor Nick Bala will produce a guidebook for lawyers, judges and doctors on parental alienation.
While statistics vary and the rigour of some of the studies is questionable, it is at least experientially well understood that false allegations of abuse are pervasive in contested matrimonial cases. In cases of less “tangible” allegations, perhaps the most abused word is the word “abuse” itself.
The process of asking children their opinions creates the risk of triangulating the child further into an inter-parental dispute, and it can potentially create or contribute to an alliance of one parent and child against the other parent or against other children.
Many studies and publications, including a study of 1,000 families published by the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association, suggest that parental lobbying and manipulation of children in custody disputes is a very common occurrence.
Bill C-560, a private member’s bill proposed by Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott, is a reasonable and balanced proposal to address the current broken system. Parliament will debate bill C-560 on May 7, followed by a second reading vote.
The principal change to the Divorce Act, with the goal of reducing incentives for bitter and expensive litigation over children, is the proposal for a rebuttable presumption that equal shared parenting would support the best interests of the children unless a party can establish that some other parenting plan would substantially enhance those interests.
The Liberal government is overhauling Canada’s federal divorce laws to direct the justice system to put the best interests of children at the centre of decision-making.
Bill C-78, which was tabled Tuesday in the House of Commons, also takes steps to address family violence and child poverty. It’s the first major revamp of divorce law in more than 20 years.