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What You Need to Know About Health Insurance and Immigration Status

There is a lot of information about what kind of health insurance (sometimes called “health coverage,” or “coverage”) you might be eligible for depending on your immigration status. This page is intended to provide basic...
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What You Need to Know About Medicaid and Fair Hearings

Medicaid is a comprehensive health insurance program for low-income people of all ages. Medicaid covers a variety of health services including home care, nursing home, dental, vision, crisis intervention, inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient services, opioid treatment...
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What You Need to Know About Immigration and Intimate Partner/Domestic Violence

Intimate partner and domestic violence can make a frightening immigration situation more perilous. There are some steps you can take to get yourself and your family out of these situations and into a safe space.
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What You Need to Know About Criminal Court

New York’s criminal court handles misdemeanors and lesser offenses. The court also conducts arraignments and preliminary hearings for felonies.
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What You Need to Know About Custody and Visitation

A person who has legal custody of a child has the right to make important decisions for that child including, but not limited to, educational, medical and religious decisions. In New York, courts have the...
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What You Need to Know About Child Support

Information about how child support is determined, the amount of support you can except, duration and limitations.
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What You Need to Know About Your Rights to Take Leave to Care for Yourself or a Family Member

If you work in New York City, you can earn up to 40 hours of sick leave each year to take care for yourself, your child, and other family members.
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What You Need to Know About Preventing Workplace Discrimination

You have the right and employers have the obligation to maintain a workplace free of discrimination.
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What You Need to Know About Preventing Wage Theft

Protect your rights for minimum wage, overtime, unpaid wages, and other wage and hour issues.
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What You Need to Know About Spousal Support/Maintenance

Spousal support is an amount of money that the court orders one spouse to pay to the other spouse for his or her reasonable needs. Spousal support may be ordered even when spouses reside together....
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