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June 2021

We translated into Spanish our recently revised VAWA Self-petitions section.

We added a new statute about gun violence restraining orders to our Selected California Statutes page.

May 2021

Based on amendments to the law, we updated six questions and added two new questions on our California Housing Laws page. Changes made in English, Spanish coming soon.

In our Nebraska Legal Assistance page, we updated the descriptions for 8 Legal Aid resources and translated them into Spanish.

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