Editorial standards
This page describes how the site handles facts. It is not legal advice.
Every rule about courts and classes on this site comes from a court, a state agency or a statute. Not from a class provider’s sales page, and not from another website’s summary.
One set of facts comes from somewhere else, and it is named rather than glossed over. The crisis lines on the resources page are quoted from the organizations that run them — the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and the National Domestic Violence Hotline — because they are the authority on their own numbers, hours and terms, and no court or statute publishes those. They are quoted, attributed and dated exactly like everything else; they are simply not courts. This paragraph exists because the sentence above it used to claim every factual statement came from a court, an agency or a statute, and that was never true of these.
Four rules govern what appears here.
Quoted exactly. Where a source says something, this site reproduces its words rather than paraphrasing them. Paraphrase is where a conditional rule quietly becomes an unconditional one.
Attributed to the authority that said it. Every quotation names the court, agency or statute it came from, and the document it appeared in.
Dated to the day the document was read. Pages carry “Sources read on” and a date, not “last updated”. A reading date is not the same as the date of the rule, and saying so would tell you something false about how current the rule is.
Described with the population it applies to. Every quotation says who it was written about. A county’s family-court guidance about parents is not a rule for someone on criminal probation, and this site will not let the two blur.
Where a source says nothing, this site says nothing. There are questions on this subject that no authority appears to have answered in writing. Where that is the case, these pages say so rather than filling the gap.
Nothing on this site is legal advice.