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July 2017
We updated our Pennsylvania Local Programs (updated 78 resources) and Statewide Programs (updated 4 resources) pages in English. Spanish translation coming soon!
We added a new page to our Preparing for Court section on Ways Courts Use Technology in English and Spanish.
We re-wrote our Helping Others - Family, Friends and Co-workers page in English. Spanish soon to come!
In our Virginia Protective Orders section, we improved the question called What is the definition of an act of violence, force, or threat? by hyperlinking the crimes to their legal definitions in the statutes in English and Spanish. We also added a relevant statute to the State Statutes page.
We added the crime of identity theft to the Colorado Crimes page in English and Spanish.
We added the crime of identity theft to the California Crimes page in English and Spanish.
We added the crime of identity theft to the Arizona Crimes page in English and Spanish.
We added the crime of prohibited conduct relating to spyware to the Alaska Crimes page.
We added the crime of identity theft to the Alabama Crimes page.
We added the crime of child custody interference to the Idaho Crimes page.
We added a New Hampshire state-specific Divorce page and three corresponding statutes to our State Statutes page.
We added a link to our Technology Abuse page in each state's Crimes page in English and Spanish.
We added a new Computer Crimes page in English to our Technology Abuse section.
We translated all 126 resources on our Texas Local Programs page into Spanish.
We updated 1 resource in the Statewide Programs, 16 resources in the Legal Assistance for Battered Immigrant Women, and 7 resources in the Lawyer Referral Services pages and edited 4 resources in the Legal Assistance page of Texas in English. Spanish translation is coming soon!
We updated 2 resources in the Florida Statewide Programs page in English and Spanish.
June 2017
We updated the links on our South Dakota Download Court Forms page.
We re-wrote and re-organized our South Dakota State Gun Laws page.
We added the U.S. Virgin Islands Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service to the U.S. Virgin Islands Finding a Lawyer page.
We added TLC House to the Indiana Local Programs page.
We updated the resource information on our Wyoming Lawyer Referral Services page.
We updated all of the resources on our Texas Local Programs page in English. Spanish translation coming soon.
We added the crimes of voyeurism and interception to our Indiana Crimes page.
Based on a change to Tennessee law, we added information about a law enforcement officer being able to file for an order to the question: Am I eligible to file for a protection order?
We edited all of the Texas Statewide Programs in English. We also updated the Texas Statewide Legal Assistance page, the Legal Assistance for Battered Immigrant Women page, and the Lawyer Referral Services page in English. Spanish translation coming soon.
We added a new resource, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Surveillance Self-Defense toolkit, to our Technology Abuse section in Spanish and English.
We created a new Oklahoma Victim Protective Orders page and added 3 accompanying statutes to our State Statutes page in English.
We revised the Maryland Peace Orders page in English.
We added the crime of electronic and mechanical eavesdropping to our Iowa Crimes page.
We translated into Spanish our Pennsylvania Protection from Sexual Violence or Intimidation Orders page.
Based on changes to Wisconsin laws, we added information to our Domestic Abuse Injunctions page, Child Abuse Restraining Orders page, and Individual at Risk Restraining Orders page.
We added a new resource, Hopeful Horizons, to our South Carolina Legal Assistance page.
We added a GPS Monitoring page in English to our Technology Abuse section. Spanish translation coming soon!
We added the crime of eavesdropping to our Kentucky Crimes page and State Statutes page.
We added the crime of interception and disclosure of wire, electronic, or oral communications to our Louisiana Crimes page and State Statutes page.
We translated our Virginia Custody page into Spanish. The translation of all of the information in our Virginia Know the Laws section is now complete!
We updated 45 resources in the Local Programs, 12 resources in the Lawyer Referral Services, and 57 resources in Legal Assistance pages of Florida in English. Spanish translation coming soon!
We added the crime of recording telephone conversations to our Georgia Crimes page.
We added the U.S. Virgin Islands Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service to the U.S. Virgin Islands Finding a Lawyer page.
We re-wrote and re-organized our South Dakota State Gun Laws page.
We updated the links on our South Dakota Download Court Forms page.
May 2017
We added information to our Rhode Island State Gun Laws section about a 2017 law that orders surrender of all firearms upon conviction of, or pleading no contest to, various felony crimes against a family or household member. We also added the relevant statute to our Statutes page.
We updated the legal information on our Pennsylvania Divorce page in English and Spanish based on a change in the law. We also updated the links to outside sources and added a new link to the Pennsylvania Courts website with information on representing oneself in a divorce.
Based on an addition to the law, we added new information in English and Spanish to the question In which county can I file for a protective order? on our Oklahoma Domestic Violence Protective Orders page.
We translated three questions on our Oklahoma Stalking Protective Orders page, completing the translation of that section into Spanish.
After receiving an email from a prosecutor in Michigan, we added more detailed information to the question about the cost of filing a petition on all three of our Michigan Personal Protection Orders pages. We also added one relevant statute to our Michigan Statutes page.
We added the crimes of photographing, videotaping or electronically surveilling partially nude or nude and person or the sexual or other intimate parts of a person around the person’s clothing and dissemination or possession of obscene matter to our Massachusetts Crimes page.
We made updates to our Virginia Guns and Protective Orders section in both English and Spanish.
We added Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE) to our National Organizations/American Women Abroad page in both English and Spanish.
We added the crime of tracking device; placement or installment on motor vehicle without consent to our Michigan Crimes page.
We added the crimes of wiretapping and tampering with computer data to our Missouri Crimes page.
April 2017
We updated the information for all 77 family courts that are listed on our New York Family Courts page in English and Spanish.
With the help of Tess Meuer from the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence, we corrected and updated our Wisconsin Restraining Orders pages.
We added a link to information about Crime Victims Compensation to our New York Crimes page in Spanish and English.
In response to an Email Hotline inquiry, we added the law Consent required from noncustodial parent to relocate child when primary physical custody established; petition for permission from court; attorney’s fees and costs to our Nevada Statutes page.
Based on recent additions to New Jersey laws, we added information in English and Spanish to our Sexual Assault Restraining Orders page, our Domestic Violence Restraining Orders page, and we added the crime of cyberharassment to our Crimes page and Statutes page.
We translated the Maryland Suing Your Abuser page into Spanish.
We updated 11 resources on the Utah Legal Assistance page.
We updated 1 resource on the Utah Lawyer Referral Services page.
We updated our Illinois Workplace Protections in English and Spanish page based on 2017 changes to the law.
We updated the links to outside sources on our Illinois Divorce page in English and Spanish.
We added information based on a recently-enacted law to each of the three injunctions pages in our Florida Restraining Orders section regarding the increased punishment for the third violation of an injunction. All additions were made in English and Spanish.
We re-wrote the question What are the grounds to file for divorce in Delaware? in our Delaware Divorce section.
We revised the Delaware Orders of Protection from Abuse page, re-writing the Steps to get an order of protection from abuse section, and improving the questions What is the legal definition of abuse in Delaware? and What types of orders of protection from abuse are there? How long do they last?
We added the Texas Lawyer Referral Service in English to our Texas Lawyer Referral Services page. Spanish translation coming soon!
We translated our Maryland Domestic Violence Protective Orders page into Spanish.
In response to an Email Hotline inquiry, we added the law on grandparent visitation to our Louisiana Statutes page.
In our Utah Restraining Orders section, we added a Child Protective Orders page and two corresponding statutes.
We added 4 new resources to our Maryland Local Programs page.
March 2017
We added 4 new crimes to our Connecticut Crimes page in English and Spanish.
We translated into Spanish our Connecticut State Gun Laws page.
In our Pennsylvania Restraining Orders section, we added content to our Protection from Sexual Violence or Intimidation Orders page in English and added 7 corresponding statutes to our Pennsylvania Statutes page.
We added two new resources to the Michigan Local Programs page.
With the help of the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, we updated the Indiana Finding a Lawyer page, updating contact information and adding an additional resource.
We translated into Spanish our Connecticut Restraining Orders (Relief from Abuse Orders) page.
We added the D.C. Reduced Fee Lawyer & Mediator Referral Service in English and Spanish to our D.C. Lawyer Referral Services page.
In our Utah Restraining Orders section, we added a Dating Violence Protection Orders page and 6 corresponding statutes to our Utah Statutes page.
We updated the West Virginia Statewide Programs page.
Based on an Email Hotline inquiry, we added two statutes to our Nebraska Statutes page regarding enforcing an our-of-state custody order.
We translated into Spanish our Online Harassment page.
We translated into Spanish our Illinois Stalking No Contact Order page.
We revised the information on our Vermont Sexual Assault or Stalking Protective Orders page and Relief from Abuse Orders page based on 2016 changes to the law. We also added the question called "Can a minor file for an order?" to each section.
We added a the crime of criminal threatening to the Vermont Crimes page and Statutes page. We also and added a new law about defenses to stalking or aggravated stalking to both pages.
We updated the resources on our Louisiana Lawyer Referral Services page and added one new resource.
In response to an Email Hotline inquiry, we added a statute to our Florida Statutes page about enforcement of a foreign child custody order.
We updated the information and links to outside sources on our Washington Housing Laws page in English and Spanish.
We updated our Maryland Download Court Forms page in English.
In our Virginia Restraining Orders section, we translated into Spanish our Protective Orders (for Family Abuse) page, our Protective Orders (for an Act of Violence, Force, or Threat) page, and our Enforcing Your Out-of-State Order in Virginia page.
We added the StrongHearts Native Helpline to our National Organizations page in Spanish and English.
We added a new resource to our Virginia and D.C. legal assistance and local programs pages, in English and Spanish.
We re-wrote the Puerto Rico Orders of Protection for the Welfare and Protection of Children page in English and Spanish.
We re-wrote the Puerto Rico Protection from Stalking Orders page in English and Spanish and added a new question about when an abuser violates the order. We also added 8 related statutes to our Estatutos (Statutes) page.
We added an Online Harassment page to our Technology Abuse page in English. Spanish translation coming soon!
February 2017
We translated into Spanish our new Impersonation page, which was added to the Technology Abuse section in January 2017.
We added Spanish translations to two new questions on our Sexual Assault/Rape page.
We translated into Spanish 100 statewide and local programs, legal assistance organizations and courthouses on our Arizona Where to Find Help page.
We translated into Spanish 61 resources in our Texas Legal Assistance and Statewide Legal Assistance sections on our Texas Finding a Lawyer page.
We updated and edited our Sexual Assault/Rape page in English. Spanish translation coming soon!
We added the crime of interference with custody to our Delaware Crimes page.
We added a state-specific Mississippi Custody page.
We updated the links on our Alaska Download Court Forms page.
We added 15 new crimes to our Alaska Crimes page and Statutes page.
In our Alaska Domestic Violence Protective Orders page, we rewrote the information in What is the legal definition of domestic violence? and in the section called Steps for getting a domestic violence protective order. We also added a new question called What types of domestic violence protective orders are there? How long do they last? and information about emergency orders that a police officer can file on behalf of a victim.
We added 6 new crimes to our Missouri Crimes page and Statutes page.
On our Missouri Orders of Protection due to Domestic Violence page, we added information about transferring a wireless phone number to the victim of abuse in How can an order of protection due to domestic violence help me?
We added information to our Illinois State Gun Laws page in English and Spanish about the relation between firearms and stalking no contact orders.
We reviewed and edited 9 legal assistance organizations and added one new organization on our Alaska Legal Assistance page.
We revised all of the information on our Maryland Domestic Violence Protective Orders page and added 3 new questions.
January 2017
We added the Child Welfare Information Gateway as a resource under the category of Child Abuse on our National Organizations page in English and Spanish.
We revised the information in English on our Maryland Domestic Violence Protective Orders page in the question What is the legal definition of domestic abuse in Maryland? to hyperlink the forms of abuse to their legal meanings on our Statutes page. We also added two relevant statutes to the State Statutes page.
We added the following crimes to our Puerto Rico Crimes page in English and Spanish: illegal custody deprivation, kidnapping, lascivious acts, negligent injury.
We reviewed and updated 4 resources on the Texas Statewide Legal Assistance page in English. (We also updated an additional 57 resources on the Texas Legal Assistance page back in September 2016 that we never posted to this What's New on this Site page!)
We added state-specific custody information in Spanish to D.C.'s Custody page. (The English was added in December 2016.)
We updated the Nebraska Legal Assistance page by adding 6 resources and reviewing 8 resources.
We added two new resources in English and Spanish to our National Organizations page: InformedImmigrant.com, which is a website formed by immigrant rights organizations and leaders across the country, and the National Crime Victims Law Institute.
We revised the information on our North Carolina State Gun Laws page to make it more clear and concise and to add more information about a felon in possession of a firearm. All changes were done in English and Spanish. We also added a related statute to our Statutes page.
Based on a new law that recently took effect, we added the question If my child was conceived from rape, can the offender get legal decision-making or parenting time? to our Arizona Custody page in Spanish (the English was added in December 2016).
We added a new crime to our Connecticut Crimes page in English and Spanish called Assault of an elderly, blind, disabled or pregnant person or a person with intellectual disability. We also added it to our Statutes page.
We added an Impersonation page to our Technology Abuse section in English. Spanish translation coming soon!
We translated the Connecticut Suing Your Abuser page into Spanish.
Based on changes to Connecticut law, we added information in English to our Restraining Orders (Relief from Abuse Orders) page regarding factors that a judge will consider when granting an ex parte order, the expedited hearing on the final order when the respondent has firearms, and more.
We added detailed content to our Illinois Stalking No Contact Order page in English. We also added 3 additional corresponding statutes to the State Statutes page.
We updated our Minnesota Download Court Forms page.
We re-wrote and re-organized the Connecticut State Gun Laws page in English and added 6 related statutes to our Statutes page. Spanish soon to come!
We added a state-specific Divorce page in Kentucky and 3 corresponding statutes to our Statutes page.
We added an Idaho Protection Order Against Malicious Harassment, Stalking, and Telephone Harassment page and 4 corresponding statutes on the State Statutes page.
We translated into Spanish the following sections on our Virginia Know the Laws page: State Gun Laws, Housing Laws, Divorce, and Crimes. Look out for more translated sections coming soon!
In response to an Email Hotline inquiry, we added the crime of custodial interference to our New Mexico Crimes page in English and Spanish and to our Statutes page.
In response to an Email Hotline inquiry, we added two statutes regarding registering and enforcing an out-of-state custody order to our Oregon Statutes page.
December 2016
We added state-specific custody information and corresponding statutes to D.C.'s Custody page in English.
Based on a new law that recently took effect, we added the question If my child was conceived from rape, can the offender get legal decision-making or parenting time? to our Arizona Custody page in English. We also added the relevant statute to our Statutes page.
Based on an Email Hotline inquiry, we added the question If there is a custody order in place, can I relocate? to our Kentucky Custody page and the relevant statute to our Statutes page.
We completely re-wrote the Wyoming Custody page, adding new questions and revising all of the other questions.
We added information about a minor being able to file for a Wisconsin Harassment Restraining Order in the question Who is eligible to file for a harassment restraining order? Can a minor file?
We greatly increased and improved the information in What is the legal definition of domestic violence/abuse in Utah? on our Utah Protective Orders due to Domestic/Violence Abuse section.
We revised the information on our Utah Stalking Injunctions page and added 2 new questions: What types of stalking injunctions are there? How long do they last? and Can the order be modified or dismissed?
