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November 2024

In our Montana Download Court Forms page, we added links to the Montana Judicial Branch website for forms related to child support, common law marriage, and name changes for adults and children. 

In our Massachusetts Extreme Risk Protection Orders section, we revised Who can file for an extreme risk protection order? to include additional people who can file. Changes made in English; Spanish coming soon!

We revised two questions in our Oklahoma Custody and one question in our Oklahoma Suing an Abuser for Money page. We also added a statute to our Selected Oklahoma Statutes page.

We added the following new crimes to our Florida Crimes page in English (Spanish coming soon) and to our Selected Florida Statutes page:

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