In recognition of his exceptional work in the realm of parental rights advocacy, Canadian attorney Brian Ludmer received the 2024 Ned Holstein Shared Parenting Research Award from the National Parents Organization (NPO).
Brian Ludmer is a renowned family and business law specialist, as well as the founder of the Toronto, Ontario practice Ludmer Law, who has spent his career advancing the cause of shared parenting and the protection of children in high-conflict custody cases. He shared this momentous distinction with Jennifer Harman, Christine Giancarlo and Demosthenes Lorandos, with whom he co-authored Gender and Child Custody Outcomes Across 16 Years of Judicial Decisions Regarding Abuse and Parental Alienation: Developmental Psychology and the Scientific Status of Parental Alienation, the research paper that earned each of them this prestigious accolade.
The 2024 Ned Holstein Shared Parenting Research Award is only the third such prize to be given out by NPO, a Massachusetts-based organization whose mission is to promote shared parenting by educating parents, divorce professionals, and legislators, as well as advocating for family court reform. The organization’s award committee chose to honour Brian Ludmer and his co-authors, heralding their collective work as the most significant research on shared parenting published in 2023.