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September 2018

Based on changes to Arizona law, we updated the information in our Divorce section in the question Can I get alimony? in English and Spanish.

We added a District of Columbia Workplace Protections page and 3 corresponding statutes to the Selected District of Columbia Statutes page.

We translated into Spanish our recently updated information in multiple questions in our Federal Gun Laws page.

We updated the Divorce information in West Virginia, adding information on residency, grounds and alimony requirements, and added 18 related statutes to our Selected West Virginia Statutes page.

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