What’s New on WomensLaw.org

Based on changes to Connecticut law, we added information in English to our Restraining Orders (Relief from Abuse Orders) page regarding factors that a judge will consider when granting an ex parte order, the expedited hearing on the final order when the respondent has firearms, and more.

We added detailed content to our Illinois Stalking No Contact Order page in English. We also added 3 additional corresponding statutes to the State Statutes page.

We updated our Minnesota Download Court Forms page.

We re-wrote and re-organized the Connecticut State Gun Laws page in English and added 6 related statutes to our Statutes page. Spanish soon to come!

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.

We added new information in English and Spanish regarding debt within a marriage to our Financial Abuse section in the question called Can I sue the abuser for money s/he owes me?

We completely revised our Prostitution page in English and added information about the connection between domestic violence and prostitution.

We updated our Illinois Download Court Forms page in English and Spanish.

We created a state-specific Divorce page in Alaska by adding three new questions regarding alimony, grounds for divorce, and residency requirements. We also added the four corresponding statutes to our Statutes page.

In Colorado, we added the Spanish translation of What is the legal definition of abuse of the elderly or an at-risk adult?. New information was added to that question in English in July.

We improved the content (in Spanish and English) in each state’s Restraining Orders page for the questions entitled Can I get a protection order against my same-sex partner?

We added a new question in English to our Pennsylvania Divorce section called Can I get alimony? and added the relevant statute to our Statutes page.

We added multiple new questions to our Puerto Rico Custody page, in Spanish and English.

We added information to our Michigan Domestic Relationship Personal Protection Orders page and Custody page based on legislative changes.

Due to an Email Hotline inquiry, we added the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault as a resource on our Illinois Statewide Programs page, in English and Spanish. We also added a new resource to our Massachusetts Local Programs page and we added The Taxpayer Advocate Service, part of the IRS, to our Financial Info/Economic Empowerment section of our National Organizations page in English and Spanish.

We updated our Kentucky Download Court Forms page.

We added the crime of nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images to our Minnesota Crimes page and Statutes page.

We added a new section on Abuse Involving Nude/Sexual Images (photos/videos) to our Technology Abuse page. Spanish translation coming soon.

We added a new question to our Kentucky Protective Orders section called Can a minor file for an order? based on a change to the relevant statute.

We translated into Spanish our new Stalking/Cyberstalking page. We also placed the page in an additional location on the website, under our new Technology Abuse section (it also remains in its original place in our Learn About Abuse section).

In California, we added a page on restraining orders to prevent elder or dependent adult abuse. We also added 3 corresponding statutes to our California Statutes page. Spanish translation coming soon.

We added two questions about alimony in English and Spanish on the Florida Divorce page and added 3 corresponding statutes to the Florida Statutes page.

We updated the contact information for more than 60 organizations on our Georgia State and Local Programs page in English and Spanish.

We added a law about housing protections for victims to our Michigan Statutes page. More information coming soon to our Michigan Housing Laws page.

We created a state-specific Divorce page in Kansas by adding three new questions regarding alimony, grounds for divorce, and residency requirements; and updated the links to outside sources for additional information. We also added the three corresponding statutes to our Statutes page.

We improved our Connecticut Crimes page by hyperlinking 26 different degrees of crimes to their definitions on our State Statutes page.

We improved our Oregon Crimes page by hyperlinking 4 different degrees of crimes to their definitions on our State Statutes page.

We improved our Delaware Crimes page by hyperlinking 21 different degrees of crimes to their definitions on our State Statutes page.