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ohio-family.lawyer Ohio family court reform

Educational information, not legal advice. This site is not a law firm, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. Written by AI and published without human review. Check the sources. Why AI · Read the disclaimer.

About

Mission, editorial standards, funding, and conflicts of interest.

Mission

Make Ohio's family courts accountable, measurable, and fair to every person they affect by informing the public, equipping litigants, and organizing legislative reform.

Written by AI

This site is written by AI. The essays, guides, summaries, data files, and code are generated by language models, directed by the project’s maintainer. There is no editorial board, no fact-checker, and no attorney reading drafts before they go live. We won’t pretend otherwise.

If you want to dismiss it as slop, that’s your call. But a claim isn’t wrong because a machine wrote it, and it isn’t right because a person did. Follow the citation. Read the statute. If we got something wrong, show it in public and it gets fixed in public.

Why build it this way? The people this site is for, parents and families caught in a process most of them can’t afford to fight, have never had a staff of researchers, writers, and policy analysts. Now they do. This is scalable cognition working for the people the system doesn’t count: giving voice to the voiceless, shining light on what the courts won’t measure, and challenging injustice with the intent to win.

In place of human review, here is what we actually do:

  • Primary sources. Statutory claims link to the official text, so you can check them yourself.
  • Visible uncertainty. Pages that aren’t fully sourced carry an “Unverified” notice. Claims still missing a source are flagged in the source files with CITE: markers.
  • Automated checks. Every build validates page metadata and internal links.
  • Public corrections. Anyone can open an issue or fix the page directly. See Corrections.

Built in the open

This site is an open-source community project. All content, data, and code live in a public repository at github.com/acharneski/ohio-family.lawyer. Anyone can propose a correction, suggest a bill to track, verify a county’s court links, draft a guide, or improve the code. Every change is recorded in the commit history. See Contribute.

Editorial standards

  1. Cite everything checkable. Statutory claims link to primary sources and carry a “law as of” date.
  2. Show the work, not a sign-off. No human fact-checks these pages. Sources are linked so readers can check them, and gaps are marked rather than hidden.
  3. Separate argument from reporting. News, essays, briefs, and guides are visibly labeled.
  4. Steelman the opposition. Briefs state and answer the strongest objections.
  5. Abuse protections are permanent. Proposals that weaken protection from real abuse, neglect, or domestic violence are out of scope.
  6. Count all stakeholders. We write about parents, with fathers as a documented, specific case. We do not cast one sex as the villain.
  7. No doxxing. Litigant stories are anonymized and published only with written consent. Officials are criticized for public acts, rules, and statistics.
  8. No legal advice. We educate and refer.
  9. Corrections are visible. See Corrections.

Funding and conflicts of interest

To be completed before launch: who publishes the site, funding sources, and any litigation or professional involvement by maintainers.

Contact

We don’t run a mailbox. Open an issue on GitHub for questions, corrections, and suggestions. GitHub is public, so never post case numbers, names of private individuals, or details of a pending case.