Recently, noted Canadian family law attorney Brian Ludmer sat down for a far-reaching and in-depth interview encompassing both his professional experience and his personal life, explaining how they have influenced each other over the course of his more than three-decade-long legal career.
The interview, which was recorded on location at the 7th International Conference of the Parental Alienation Study Group (PASG) in Toronto, Ontario in September of 2025, touches on subjects as diverse as the psychological dynamics of parental alienation, the systemic challenges facing courts and child-protection institutions, and the painful personal experiences that ultimately shaped Ludmer’s decision to focus his legal career on these issues. In a particularly poignant section, Brian Ludmer examines why parental alienation remains an open and unresolved issue, now decades after it was clearly identified as a serious social problem, as well as what must be changed to truly protect children involved in such an unfortunate family situation.
Through painstaking research and real-world courtroom experience defending his clients, Ludmer has gained valuable insight into the world of high-conflict family litigation and all the strategic maneuvering, bad-faith tactics, and nasty tricks that all-too-frequently go along with it. More than that, though, he has experienced first-hand and seen in others how spousal separations, custody battles, and parental alienation can devastate families and ruin lives, and he has made it his life’s work to help parents protect their relationships with their children and bring greater awareness to the issue of parental alienation. All this and more is explored in the interview.
About Brian Ludmer
An acknowledged specialist in high-conflict custody litigation, shared parenting advocacy, and legal matters pertaining to parental alienation, Brian Ludmer is the founder and principal lawyer of the Toronto-area law firm Ludmer Law. He is also a co-founder of the international advocacy group Lawyers for Shared Parenting, as well as a co-author of The High-Conflict Custody Battle, and has served on the board of the International Support Network for Alienated Families (ISNAF) for over ten years. In the past, he has helped to draft proposals for reforms on a national level, contributing to the legal language included in Bill C-560, which attempted to establish a presumption of equal shared parenting throughout Canada.
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