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July 2020

In our Kentucky Divorce section, we added a link to information about legal separation in the question Where can I find additional information about divorce laws in Kentucky?

Based on changes in the law, we updated four questions in our New York Housing Laws section. Changes were made in English, Spanish coming soon!

Based on legislative changes that take effect in July 2020, we added information to If my child was conceived from sexual assault, can the offender get custody or visitation? to include the fact that a mother who is under age 18 cannot waive child support or ask for visitation on her own.

We translated into Spanish 14 new crimes to our Arizona Crimes page.

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