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May 2020

In our Hawaii Custody page, we added information about how disability can be considered when deciding custody to How will a judge make a decision about custody and visitation?

We added a new statute to our Selected Hawaii Statutes page related to disability as a factor in custody decisions.

Based on 2020 statutory changes, we updated 4 questions in our Hawaii State Gun Laws section.

On our North Dakota Places that Help page, we added 7 new resources in the following sections: 5 local programs, 1 legal assistance organization, 1 courthouse location.

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