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We updated the Lawyer Referral Services page for Indiana.

We re-wrote the Wyoming Orders of Protection Against Stalking or Sexual Assault section, expanding it from 3 questions to 9 questions and bringing the information up to date with legislative changes.

We added the crime of human trafficking to the North Dakota Crimes page and Statutes page.

We added the crimes of eavesdropping and invasion of privacy to the Colorado Crimes page in English and Spanish and to the Statutes page.

We added information about the prohibition against firearms in North Dakota to the question How can a domestic violence protection order help me?

We updated the information on the North Dakota Suing Your Abuser page.

In response to an Email Hotline inquiry, we added the question Can grandparents or other relatives get visitation rights in court? to our Ohio Custody page. We also added three corresponding statutes to our Statutes page.

In response to an Email Hotline inquiry from California, we added information in English and Spanish about the age until which a parent has to pay support in Can I get financial support for my children? We also added the relevant statute to our Statutes page.

We updated the contact information and descriptions in Spanish for all of the resources on our Virginia Finding a Lawyer page. After adding 5 new resources, there are now 31 total.

We added a statute to our Washington Statutes page regarding the jurisdictional limit for filing a lawsuit in small claims court.

We added the crime of interception of communications to our Delaware Crimes page and Statutes page.

We added the crimes of interception and recording of communications and video voyeurism to our Arkansas Crimes page and Statutes page.

We are excited to announce that we have begun to translate Massachusetts into Spanish, beginning with the Suing Your Abuser page and the Crimes page.

We added the crime of interception of wire, electronic, and oral communications to our Arizona Crimes page and Statutes page.

We added the crimes of criminal surveillance, criminal eavesdropping, and installing eavesdropping device to our Alabama Crimes page and Statutes page.

We added new reasons for which an abuser can be denied a license to carry a firearm to our U.S. Virgin Islands State Gun Laws page, along with two corresponding statutes to our Statutes page.

We completely revised our Virginia State Gun Laws section in English, re-writing the majority of the information and adding two relevant statutes to our Statutes page.

Based on 2016 changes to Virginia law, we added information in English about new ways that an abuser can violate a protective order to our Protective Orders (for Family Abuse) page and our Protective Orders (for an Act of Violence, Force, or Threat) page.

Based on a law that became effective in May 2016, we added a question to our Utah Protective Orders page called If I am going through a divorce, will that affect the length of my protective order? We also improved and augmented the information in the question: Can the abuser or I request that the order be dismissed?

With the help of one of our national partners, ASISTA, we added a new question in English and Spanish to our U visa section called How long does it take to get the U visa? What legal status do I have while I am waiting for my U visa? We also revised the question Can I get a work permit if my U visa status application is approved? in English and Spanish.

We translated into Spanish the Michigan Housing Laws page that we added in English in October.

In California, we translated into Spanish the page we added in August on restraining orders to prevent elder or dependent adult abuse.

We added the crime of interference with child custody to our Texas Crimes page, in English and Spanish.

We added a state-specific Divorce page in Michigan in English and 4 related statutes to our Statutes page.

We revised the information on our Rhode Island Workplace Violence Restraining Orders page and our Domestic Violence Restraining Orders page.

We are excited to announce that we have begun to translate Oregon into Spanish, beginning with the Suing Your Abuser page!

We updated the Pennsylvania Download Court Forms page in English and Spanish and added links to new court forms.

With help from the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, we updated the contact information for all 25 listings on our New Hampshire State and Local Programs page and we added descriptions of services for each resource.

We revised the information contained in the following sections in Oklahoma, in both Spanish and English: Moving to Another State with a Protective Order, Enforcing Your Out-of-State Order in Oklahoma, and State Parental Kidnapping Information. We also added a new question to the Custody page called Can I get temporary emergency custody?

We added information in English and Spanish to our Oklahoma State Gun Laws section based on a change in Oklahoma law regarding the impact of misdemeanor drug convictions on the ability to get a concealed handgun license. We also added information to our Oklahoma Stalking Protective Orders section in the question What is a stalking protective order? What steps must I take before filing for the order? in English. Spanish soon to come.

We re-wrote multiple questions and re-organized the flow of the questions (to make it easier to understand) on our Idaho State Gun Laws page.

We translated into Spanish our revised Prostitution page in which we added information about the connection between domestic violence and prostitution (revised in English in September).

We added the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image to our Oregon Crimes page and Statutes page.

We added information to our Hawaii Orders for Protection page (in How can a TRO and an order for protection help me?) about the right of a victim of abuse to transfer a shared wireless phone account into his/her own name. We also added the two relevant statutes to our Hawaii Statutes page.

We translated into Spanish the new question that we added last month to our Puerto Rico Divorce section called Can I get alimony? and the other updates that we made to that page.

We translated into Spanish the North Carolina Civil No-Contact Orders for Victims of Registered Sex Offenders (“50D orders”) page, which was completed in English in March 2016.

We added the Spanish translation of Electronic Surveillance, which was added in English to our Technology Abuse page in August.

We added the crime of breach of privacy to our Kansas Crimes page and Statutes page.

We added the crime of unlawful dissemination of intimate image to our Nevada Crimes page and Statutes page.

We added a new page to our Kentucky Restraining Orders section on Interpersonal Protective Orders and five corresponding statutes to our Statutes page.

In Connecticut, we created a state-specific Divorce page, adding questions about alimony, grounds for divorce, and residency requirements. We also added the three relevant statutes to our Statutes page.

In Indiana, we created a state-specific Divorce page, adding questions about alimony, grounds for divorce, and residency requirements. We also added the three relevant statutes to our Statutes page.

We completely revised our Prostitution page in English and added information about the connection between domestic violence and prostitution.

We added a new question to our Puerto Rico Divorce section called Can I get alimony? in English, updated the rest of the information, and added the relevant statutes to our Statutes page in English and Spanish.

We updated and significantly edited our Wisconsin Domestic Abuse Injunctions page.

We added the Spanish translation of the section (created in English in July) called Technology Misuse under our Learn About Abuse tab in which we talk about civil and criminal options for dealing with technology abuse.

We added a new section on Electronic Surveillance to our Technology Abuse page. Spanish translation coming soon.

We added the crime of criminal invasion of privacy to our West Virginia Crimes page and Statutes page.

We added information in English and Spanish about filing and appearing electronically in an order of protection proceeding in New York to the Restraining Orders section called Step 1: Go to court to file the petition.

We added information to our Michigan Domestic Relationship Personal Protection Orders page and Custody page based on legislative changes.

We added the crime of nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images to our Minnesota Crimes page and Statutes page.

We translated into Spanish our new Stalking/Cyberstalking page. We also placed the page in an additional location on the website, under our new Technology Abuse section (it also remains in its original place in our Learn About Abuse section).

We updated the contact information for more than 60 organizations on our Georgia State and Local Programs page in English and Spanish.

In Colorado, we added the Spanish translation of What is the legal definition of abuse of the elderly or an at-risk adult?. New information was added to that question in English in July.

We added multiple new questions to our Puerto Rico Custody page, in Spanish and English.

We updated our Kentucky Download Court Forms page.

We added a new question to our Kentucky Protective Orders section called Can a minor file for an order? based on a change to the relevant statute.

We added two questions about alimony in English and Spanish on the Florida Divorce page and added 3 corresponding statutes to the Florida Statutes page.

We updated the listings in English and Spanish on our Oklahoma Lawyer Referral Services page.

We updated our Alabama Know the Laws section based on legislative changes, adding information about requirements when filing on behalf of a minor against the minor’s other parent to Can a minor get a PFA order? and Who is eligible for a protection from abuse (PFA) order? to our Protection from Abuse Orders section. In our Custody section, we re-wrote the question I am the child’s grandparent. Can I get visitation? based on changes to the law and added the question What factors will a judge consider when deciding if a grandparent can get visitation? We also added the two related statutes to our Statutes page.

We added a question about retroactive child support in English to the North Carolina Child Support page.

In the U.S. Virgin Islands Statutes page, we added 5 statutes that correspond with the Stalking Protection Orders page.

We added two child abduction crimes to our Maryland Crimes page in English and Spanish.

With funding from the Digital Trust Foundation, we created a new section called Technology Misuse under our Learn About Abuse tab in which we talk about civil and criminal options for dealing with technology abuse. We also re-wrote the definitions of stalking and cyberstalking on our Stalking/Cyberstalking page. Spanish translation soon to come.

We added a new resource, Womenstepforward.org, to our National Organizations - International/Immigration section in Spanish and English.

California passed a new law allowing victims of abuse to separate their cell phone accounts from the abuser’s and keep their cell phone number. We added the law to our California Statutes page and added information about this to the question How can a DVRO help me? in English and Spanish.

We improved our Alabama Crimes page by hyperlinking 21 different degrees of crimes to their definitions on our State Statutes page.

We improved our Spanish and English Arkansas Crimes page by hyperlinking 16 different degrees of crimes to their definitions on our State Statutes page.

We improved our Connecticut Crimes page by hyperlinking 26 different degrees of crimes to their definitions on our State Statutes page.

We improved our Hawaii Crimes page by hyperlinking 16 different degrees of crimes to their definitions on our State Statutes page.