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  ## The Story
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- In 1997 — two years before Ohio even created its Task Force on Family Law and Children — a father in Dayton became one of the first men in the state to be legally stripped of his parental rights under the Peter Lawson Jones Act, which established an 18-year statute of limitations for paternal determination.
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- That father spent the next three decades watching Ohio slowly try to fix what was broken. He watched the 2001 task force report gather dust. He watched the 2005 advisory committee recommendations stall. He watched SB325 die in committee in 2024. And now, he's watching SB174 — the bill that would finally eliminate labels like "custodial parent" and expand best interest factors from 9 to 26 — sit in the Ohio House Judiciary Committee.
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- Then, in 2024, it happened again. His son born in 2019 was caught in the same broken system. Same Hamilton County family court. Same impossible choice: hire a lawyer you can't afford, or represent yourself in a system you don't understand.
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- He chose to fight. No lawyer. No $5,000 retainer. Just statutes, sleepless nights, and a father's refusal to lose another child to a system that was never designed for people like him.
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  **He built ProSe AI so no parent would ever have to go through that alone again.**
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+ In 1997 — two years before Ohio even created its Task Force on Family Law and Children — a father in Dayton became one of the first men in the state to be legally "defathered." He had taken his daughter for a DNA test after seeing the technology featured on the Oprah Winfrey show. The results came back 0%. But the court had no mechanism to stop a child support order once established not even for DNA. His case helped create the forms that now exist for victims of paternity fraud in Ohio.
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+ Then, in 2019, it happened again. A son was born right before COVID shut the world down. It took two years just to establish paternity through DNA. Then she ran. For two more years, he searched. Christmas 2023, he finally saw his son for the first time.
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+ For eight months, he built a relationship. Regular visits. A bond growing stronger every week. Then, after Christmas 2024 when his son started saying "I love you" she got jealous and cut off the connection he had fought years to build.
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+ Same father. Same Hamilton County family court. Same impossible choice: hire a lawyer at $5,000, or represent yourself in a system designed for attorneys. He chose to fight — again. No lawyer. Just statutes, sleepless nights, and a father's refusal to lose another child to a broken system.
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  **He built ProSe AI so no parent would ever have to go through that alone again.**
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