What’s New on WomensLaw.org

We updated and significantly edited our Utah Stalking Injunctions page.

We added the Spanish translation to the recently-added question about retroactive child support in our North Carolina Child Support page.

Based on legislative changes in Colorado, we added information in English about abuse of an at-risk adult to What is the legal definition of abuse of the elderly or an at-risk adult?

With funding from the Digital Trust Foundation, we created a new section called Technology Misuse under our Learn About Abuse tab in which we talk about civil and criminal options for dealing with technology abuse. We also re-wrote the definitions of stalking and cyberstalking on our Stalking/Cyberstalking page. Spanish translation soon to come.

We updated the listings in English and Spanish on our Oklahoma Lawyer Referral Services page.

We translated into Spanish our new Sexual Assault Restraining Order page in New Jersey, which was created in English in June.

We updated our Alabama Download Court Forms page.

We added a new resource, Womenstepforward.org, to our National Organizations - International/Immigration section in Spanish and English.

We updated our Alabama Know the Laws section based on legislative changes, adding information about requirements when filing on behalf of a minor against the minor’s other parent to Can a minor get a PFA order? and Who is eligible for a protection from abuse (PFA) order? to our Protection from Abuse Orders section. In our Custody section, we re-wrote the question I am the child’s grandparent. Can I get visitation? based on changes to the law and added the question What factors will a judge consider when deciding if a grandparent can get visitation? We also added the two related statutes to our Statutes page.

Thanks to help from the Texas Council on Family Violence, we made some changes to our Texas Family Violence Protective Orders page, revising various questions and adding information about the new law regarding automatic extensions of orders.

In Maine, we added three new crimes to our Statutes and Crimes pages. We also added a question called If the child was conceived from a sexual assault, can the offender’s rights be terminated? to the Custody page and updated various questions on our Restraining Orders pages based on legislative additions.

We improved our Kentucky Crimes page by hyperlinking 25 different degrees of crimes to their definitions on our State Statutes page.

We added the crime of custodial interference to our Kentucky Crimes page and Statutes page.

In response to an inquiry on the Email Hotline, we added the crime of domestic criminal trespass to our North Carolina Statutes page and Crimes page.

We improved our Massachusetts Crimes page by hyperlinking 1 crime to its definition on our State Statutes page.

We improved our Spanish and English Arizona Crimes page by hyperlinking 3 different degrees of crimes to their definitions on our State Statutes page.

In Texas, we added a new question to our Custody page called If the other parent’s new partner is abusive or a registered sex offender, do I have the right to know?, and updated various other questions throughout the Know the Laws section based on legislative changes. All changes were made in English and Spanish.

We improved our Minnesota Crimes page by hyperlinking 5 different degrees of crimes to their definitions on our State Statutes page.

We improved our Spanish and English Colorado Crimes page by hyperlinking 5 different degrees of crimes to their definitions on our State Statutes page.

In Kentucky, we updated our Statewide Programs page and added 7 new resources to our Finding a Lawyer page.

We added 7 new crimes to our Washington Crimes page; and improved two questions on our Washington Custody page. All changes were made in English and Spanish.

We translated the Washington, D.C. State Gun Laws into Spanish and now the Spanish translation of Washington, D.C. is complete!

After translating the Moving to Another State with Your Domestic Violence Order for Protection and Enforcing your Out-Of-State Order in Washington into Spanish, the Spanish translation of Washington State

We updated and significantly edited our Utah Protective Orders page.

We translated into Spanish the final 6 questions that were revised in English in April 2016, thereby completing the translation of the Custody section in Illinois.

We updated and edited the Washington, D.C. State Gun Laws page in English.

We translated the following sections in Washington into Spanish: Housing Laws, Crimes, and Divorce.

We added new information in English to our Florida Suing Your Abuser page regarding the rights of a victim of sexual cyberharassment to sue the perpetrator.

In New Hampshire, we added a statute called “interference with custody” to our Crimes page and our Statutes page.

We updated the resource information on our Iowa Statewide Programs page.

We translated the Washington, D.C. Civil Protection Orders (for victims of stalking and sexual assault / abuse), Confidentiality Laws, Housing Laws, and Crimes sections into Spanish!

We added a new question to our Maine Custody page called If I plan to relocate, what type of notice do I need to give to the other parent? and added information to the question called Can a final order be changed? What about if I want to relocate?

We added the crimes of simple assault and domestic violence to our New Hampshire Crimes page and Statutes page.

We updated the information on our Safety Tips for Stalking Victims page in English and Spanish.

We revised and reorganized the information on our Delaware State Gun Laws page.

We completely revamped our Illinois Custody page in English, adding multiple questions and revising the whole section based on 2016 changes to Illinois law.

We added new information to our New York Orders of Protection section about the ability to file a petition for an order of protection or a modification petition in the criminal court when the family court is closed. We also improved the information on our New York Divorce, Parental Kidnapping and Custody pages - all changes were made in English and Spanish.

Based on a new law that became effective in 2016, we added two questions in English and Spanish to our Illinois Custody page regarding relocating with a child. We also added the related statutes to our Statutes page.

In response to an Email Hotline inquiry, we added the law about criminal statutes of limitations to our New York Statutes page.

We revised and reorganized the information on our Wisconsin State Gun Laws page and added new questions about extending a restraining order in three different sections on our Wisconsin Restraining Orders page.

We added the crimes of invasion of privacy, representations depicting nudity, interference with custody, sexual assault of a child, and first- and second-degree homicide to our Wisconsin Crimes page and Statutes page.

We added two new resources, VictimConnect and Journey Out, in Spanish and English to our National Organizations page and updated 5 other resources.

We completely revised the Nevada State Gun Laws page in English, improving the information on the page. (The Spanish translation is coming soon!)

We added the Spanish translation for our Suing Your Abuser pages in Washington, D.C., Georgia, and Washington.

We added the New Hampshire Bar Association Program to our New Hampshire Statewide Programs page, updated the description for the Vermont Network Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence on the Vermont Statewide Programs page, updated the description for the Ohio Domestic Violence Network on the Ohio Statewide Programs page, and updated the description for the West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence Central Service Office on the West Virginia Statewide Programs page.

We updated and edited the Internet Security page in the Staying Safe section of the website in Spanish (the English was edited in February 2016).

We updated our Sexual Assault/Rape page in English and Spanish.

We added content to our North Carolina Civil No-Contact Orders for Victims of Registered Sex Offenders (“50D orders”) page and our North Carolina Statutes page.

We updated our Preparing Your Case page in English and Spanish.

We added the crime of non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images to our our Illinois Statutes page and Crimes page in English.

We added the crimes of 1) robbery and 2) observation of sexual contact; reproduction or disclosure of images of sexual contact to our New Jersey Statutes page and Crimes page.

In the Preparing for Court section, we updated our Legal Definitions page, in English and Spanish.

In our New Hampshire Custody and Divorce sections, we updated the links to outside websites. We also added information about the best interest factors considered by a judge in custody cases to our NH Statutes page.

We updated and edited the Internet Security page in the Staying Safe section of the website in English.

We updated and edited our Federal Gun Laws page in English and Spanish. We also updated the corresponding federal statutes on our Federal Statutes page.

We updated the links on our Helping Others Doctors and Health Care Workers section in English and Spanish.

Thanks to input from Anu Abraham, Esq., Staff Attorney at the New Jersey Coalition to End Domestic Violence, we significantly improved the information on our New Jersey Restraining Orders page (Spanish translation soon to come!)

We updated all of the resources in English and Spanish on our Nevada Where to Find Help page, including 33 state and local programs, 5 organizations under Finding a Lawyer, and 21 Courthouse Locations.

Based on an Email Hotline inquiry, we added 4 new statutes to our Montana Statutes page regarding enforcement and registration of a foreign custody order.

We updated our California Housing Laws section in English and Spanish based on changes to California law that became effective 1/1/16.

On our Pennsylvania Custody page, we added a new question called If my child was conceived from sexual assault, can the offender get custody or visitation? and added much more information to the existing question, Can a parent who committed violence get custody or visitation? All changes were made in English and Spanish. We also added three related statutes to our PA Statutes page.

We significantly edited our Washington State Gun Laws page and added relevant statutes to our WA Statutes page.

A new law became effective in October 2015 in North Carolina, which created a civil no contact order for victims of sex offenses where the offender was convicted of the offense in criminal court and ordered to register as a sex offender. WomensLaw.org added the 11 relevant statutes to our NC Statutes page along with a note to our website visitors to explain that a new page will soon be created.

We added new information in Spanish and English to the question Can I get my child’s medical expenses included in the order? in our North Carolina Child Support section based on a clarification in North Carolina’s laws regarding what is a “reasonable cost” for health coverage for a child. We also updated various other questions on the North Carolina Know the Laws pages based on other statutory changes.