I’m not here to impress anyone. I’m just a dad who loves his kids more than life itself. I don’t have courtroom experience or a polished legal strategy — I’ve got hand-packed lunches, bedtime stories, and memories of sticky fingers reaching for mine. Now I’m standing alone in a courtroom while the other side tries to erase me from their lives. Not because I’m dangerous. Not because I’ve failed them. But because someone decided it was more convenient to pretend I don’t matter.

I’m not angry. I’m not trying to win some game. I’m just a father, doing everything I can to stay in my kids’ lives. And if you’re reading this — you know exactly who you are — I hope for just one moment, you see me not as an opponent, but as someone you could be, if things were just a little different. Because one day, it might be your kid looking up from the witness stand, wondering why their dad isn’t there.