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August 2024

We translated into Spanish our recent changes to the Florida Crimes page.

We translated into Spanish our recent revision of three questions in our Oklahoma Parental Kidnapping section.

We translated into Spanish the recently revised question If I think that the other parent may kidnap my child, is there anything I can do? in our Nevada Parental Kidnapping section. 

We created four new questions on our Wyoming Parental Kidnapping page with information on the state’s newly enacted abduction prevention orders. We also added four related statutes to our Selected Wyoming Statutes page.

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