We updated the West Virginia Statewide Programs page.

Based on an Email Hotline inquiry, we added two statutes to our Nebraska Statutes page regarding enforcing an our-of-state custody order.

We added 4 new crimes to our Connecticut Crimes page in English and Spanish.

We re-wrote the Puerto Rico Orders of Protection for the Welfare and Protection of Children page in English and Spanish.

We translated into Spanish our Illinois Stalking No Contact Order page.

We added a state-specific Mississippi Divorce page and 5 corresponding statutes to our Mississippi Statutes page.

We added an Online Harassment page to our Technology Abuse page in English.  Spanish translation coming soon!

We added a the crime of criminal threatening to the Vermont Crimes page and Statutes page.  We also and added a new law about defenses to stalking or aggravated stalking to both pages.

We added two new resources to the Michigan Local Programs page.

On our Missouri Orders of Protection due to Domestic Violence page, we added information about transferring a wireless phone number to the victim of abuse in How can an order of protection due to domestic violence help me?

We added information to our Illinois State Gun Laws page in English and Spanish about the relation between firearms and stalking no contact orders.

We reviewed and edited 9 legal assistance organizations and added one new organization on our Alaska Legal Assistance page.

We revised all of the information on our Maryland Domestic Violence Protective Orders page and added 3 new questions.

We added the crime of interference with custody to our Delaware Crimes page.

We updated the links on our Alaska Download Court Forms page.

In our Alaska Domestic Violence Protective Orders page, we rewrote the information in What is the legal definition of domestic violence? and in the section called Steps for getting a domestic violence protective order. We also added a new question called What types of domestic violence protective orders are there? How long do they last? and information about emergency orders that a police officer can file on behalf of a victim.

We translated the Crimes pages into Spanish for Maryland, Connecticut, Michigan, and Oregon.

We added an Idaho Protection Order Against Malicious Harassment, Stalking, and Telephone Harassment page and 4 corresponding statutes on the State Statutes page.

We translated into Spanish the following sections on our Virginia Know the Laws page: State Gun Laws, Housing Laws, Divorce, and Crimes. Look out for more translated sections coming soon!

We created state-specific divorce sections in Alabama and Iowa! We also added the 10 related statutes to the respective Statutes page in each state.

In response to an Email Hotline inquiry, we added the crime of custodial interference to our New Mexico Crimes page in English and Spanish and to our Statutes page.

We translated the Connecticut Suing Your Abuser page into Spanish.

We revised the information in English on our Maryland Domestic Violence Protective Orders page in the question What is the legal definition of domestic abuse in Maryland? to hyperlink the forms of abuse to their legal meanings on our Statutes page. We also added two relevant statutes to the State Statutes page.

We added the following crimes to our Puerto Rico Crimes page in English and Spanish: illegal custody deprivation, kidnapping, lascivious acts, negligent injury.

We reviewed and updated 4 resources on the Texas Statewide Legal Assistance page in English. (We also updated an additional 57 resources on the Texas Legal Assistance page back in September 2016 that we never posted to this What's New on this Site page!)

We added state-specific custody information in Spanish to D.C.'s Custody page. (The English was added in December 2016.)

We updated the Nebraska Legal Assistance page by adding 6 resources and reviewing 8 resources.

We added a statute to our Washington Statutes page regarding the jurisdictional limit for filing a lawsuit in small claims court.

We added information about the prohibition against firearms in North Dakota to the question How can a domestic violence protection order help me?

We revised the information on our Utah Stalking Injunctions page and added 2 new questions: What types of stalking injunctions are there? How long do they last? and Can the order be modified or dismissed?

We added 11 new crimes to our Utah Crimes page and Statutes page.

We updated the Lawyer Referral Services page for Indiana.

We updated the Wyoming Download Court Forms page.

We re-wrote the Wyoming Orders of Protection Against Stalking or Sexual Assault section, expanding it from 3 questions to 9 questions and bringing the information up to date with legislative changes.

We added state-specific custody information and corresponding statutes to D.C.'s Custody page in English.

In response to an Email Hotline inquiry from California, we added information in English and Spanish about the age until which a parent has to pay support in Can I get financial support for my children? We also added the relevant statute to our Statutes page.

We added the crime of human trafficking to the North Dakota Crimes page and Statutes page.

Based on an Email Hotline inquiry, we added the question If there is a custody order in place, can I relocate? to our Kentucky Custody page and the relevant statute to our Statutes page.

We updated the contact information and descriptions in Spanish for all of the resources on our Virginia Finding a Lawyer page. After adding 5 new resources, there are now 31 total.

We added the crimes of eavesdropping and invasion of privacy to the Colorado Crimes page in English and Spanish and to the Statutes page.

We added the crimes of criminal surveillance, criminal eavesdropping, and installing eavesdropping device to our Alabama Crimes page and Statutes page.

We added some information to our U.S. Virgin Islands Stalking Protection Orders page based on statutory changes in 2016.

We added the crimes of eavesdropping, voyeurism, disseminating voyeuristic material, and unlawful dissemination of an intimate image to our Connecticut Crimes page and Statutes page.

We added two crimes to our South Dakota Crimes page and Statutes page as well as new information about violating an order of protection to our Protection Orders page.

We updated the contact information and description for all of the resources in English on our Virginia Finding a Lawyer page. After adding 5 new resources, there are now 31 total.

On our Washington State Gun Laws page, we added information about a victim's right to be notified by law enforcement prior to a surrendered firearm being returned to an abuser in English and Spanish. We also added two corresponding statutes to our Statutes page.

We translated into Spanish our recently-created state-specific Divorce page in Michigan.

We completely revised the Virginia Housing Laws section in English, adding three new questions and re-writing the others.

We added the crime of wiretapping to our Colorado Crimes page and Statutes page.

We are excited to announce that we have begun to translate Massachusetts into Spanish, beginning with the Suing Your Abuser page and the Crimes page.

We added a statute about health insurance after divorce to our New York Statutes page.

We added the crime of interception of wire, electronic, and oral communications to our Arizona Crimes page and Statutes page.

We added information in English and Spanish to our Oklahoma State Gun Laws section based on a change in Oklahoma law regarding the impact of misdemeanor drug convictions on the ability to get a concealed handgun license. We also added information to our Oklahoma Stalking Protective Orders section in the question What is a stalking protective order? What steps must I take before filing for the order? in English. Spanish soon to come.

With help from an attorney at Connecticut Legal Services, we added additional information to our recently-created Connecticut Divorce page in English. We also added one relevant statute to our Statutes page.

We re-wrote multiple questions and re-organized the flow of the questions (to make it easier to understand) on our Idaho State Gun Laws page.

We re-wrote the question How can a protection order help me? in our Idaho Protection Orders section to include ways that both an ex parte order and a final order can help a victim. We also added information to two other questions in the section about the court being able to order that both parties retain counsel.

We translated into Spanish our revised Prostitution page in which we added information about the connection between domestic violence and prostitution (revised in English in September).

We added the crime of unlawful disclosure or promotion of intimate visual material to our Texas Crimes page in English and Spanish and Statutes page.

We added the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image to our Oregon Crimes page and Statutes page.

With help from the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, we updated the contact information for all 25 listings on our New Hampshire State and Local Programs page and we added descriptions of services for each resource.

We added the crime of interference with child custody to our Texas Crimes page, in English and Spanish.

We added information to our Hawaii Orders for Protection page (in How can a TRO and an order for protection help me?) about the right of a victim of abuse to transfer a shared wireless phone account into his/her own name. We also added the two relevant statutes to our Hawaii Statutes page.

We revised the information contained in the following sections in Oklahoma, in both Spanish and English: Moving to Another State with a Protective Order, Enforcing Your Out-of-State Order in Oklahoma, and State Parental Kidnapping Information. We also added a new question to the Custody page called Can I get temporary emergency custody?

We added a state-specific Divorce page in Michigan in English and 4 related statutes to our Statutes page.

Based on changes to Georgia law, we added information in English and Spanish to our Custody page about great-grandparents' and siblings' ability to seek visitation in the question I am the child's family member (grandparent or sibling). Can I get visitation? We also added the crime of identification of a minor as the individual in an obscene depiction to our Georgia Crimes page and Statutes page.

We added a new page to our Kentucky Restraining Orders section on Interpersonal Protective Orders and five corresponding statutes to our Statutes page.

We made a bunch of improvements to our Ohio Know the Laws pages! We added two new questions to our Ohio Custody page. We also added information to the question How can a protection order help me? in our Domestic Violence Protection Orders page based on a new law that became effective on September 8th allowing a judge to order a cell phone account to be transferred from the abuser to the victim. We revised the information in the Moving to Another State with Your Ohio Protection Order section and the Enforcing an Out-of-State Order in Ohio section. We also added the five related statutes to our Statutes page.

In Connecticut, we created a state-specific Divorce page, adding questions about alimony, grounds for divorce, and residency requirements. We also added the three relevant statutes to our Statutes page.

We added a new resource called Mary's Center, in English and Spanish, to our District of Columbia Local Programs page.

In Indiana, we created a state-specific Divorce page, adding questions about alimony, grounds for divorce, and residency requirements. We also added the three relevant statutes to our Statutes page.