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What’s New on WomensLaw.org

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December 2023

We created a new New Hampshire Child Support section, including five new questions that provide information about New Hampshire’s child support laws. We also added six related statutes to our Selected New Hampshire Statues page.

On our Oregon Crimes page, we added 17 crimes in English related to child abuse, sexual abuse, and stalking. Spanish coming soon!

We revised our Oregon Suing an Abuser for Money page in English to clarify the limits for damages allowed for cases brought in small claims court. Spanish coming soon!

We also added 19 related statutes to our Selected Oregon Statutes page.

We added the crime called “Criminal liability and penalties for crimes of computer theft, trespass, invasion of privacy, forgery, and password disclosure” to our Georgia Crimes page (Spanish coming soon!) and to our Selected Georgia Statutes page.

We added 17 crimes to our Rhode Island Crimes page, including failure to pay child support, online impersonation, and video voyeurism. We also added 17 related statutes to our Selected Rhode Island Statutes page.

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