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May 2025
To prepare our Kentucky legal information for translation into Spanish, we revised for clarity and accuracy all six questions on our Divorce page; all three questions on our Crimes page; and our Suing an Abuser for Money page.
On our District of Columbia Custody page, we created the new subsection Steps to file for custody, which reorganized the steps into six separate questions, making it easier for users to find the information they need:
- Considerations before filing
- Step 1: Prepare for the case
- Step 2: File and serve the custody petition
- Step 3: Preliminary court dates
- Step 4: Reach an agreement or go to trial
- Step 5: Options if you disagree with the order
These questions explain the usual stages in a custody case and cross-link to other relevant information on our website. Spanish translation coming soon!
On our California Custody page, we created the new subsection Steps to file for custody, which reorganized the steps into six separate questions, making it easier for users to find the information they need:
- Considerations before filing
- Step 1: Prepare for the case
- Step 2: File and serve the custody petition
- Step 3: Preliminary court dates
- Step 4: Reach an agreement or go to trial
- Step 5: Options if you disagree with the order
These questions explain the usual stages in a custody case and cross-link to other relevant information on our website. Spanish coming soon!
We created a new Custody section explaining the laws about child custody in the Northern Mariana Islands, including 18 new questions. We also added 14 related statutes to our Selected Northern Mariana Islands Statutes page.
