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September 2021
Based on 2021 changes to Missouri laws, we updated 5 questions in our Missouri Restraining Orders section to include information on the new length of initial and renewed orders, new rules for modifying an order, the factors that a judge considers when deciding if the abuser poses a serious risk to the petitioner’s own mental or physical health or that of their child, and the fact that pets can now be protected.
We translated into Spanish our changes in the Oregon Sexual Abuse Protection Orders page.
We translated into Spanish our recent changes to the Florida Injunction for Protections Against Domestic Violence section, based on changes to the law.
We translated into Spanish our recent edits to the Colorado Protection Orders for Stalking, Sexual Assault, Physical Harm/Threats, and Abuse of Elderly/At-Risk Adult page.
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