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July 2026

In our Mississippi Custody section, we created the new question Will the judge (chancellor) always grant joint custody?, based on 2026 changes to the law. We also updated seven statutes our Selected Mississippi Statutes page.

June 2026

We translated into Spanish one recently revised and three new questions in our Iowa State Gun Laws section.

We translated into Spanish three new and 39 recently revised questions in our Mississippi Restraining Orders page.

We translated into Spanish the recent revisions to 23 questions in our Mississippi Custody section, and now the translation of Mississippi is complete! That makes Mississippi the 43rd state to be completely translated into Spanish on our website!

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