Today, IFJC Co-Founder Naoko Shatz and Executive Director Linda Inagawa travelled to Olympia, Washington to testify in support of Senate Bill 5984, authored by Senator Lisa Wellman, at the Law and Justice Committee Meeting in the Washington State Senate. This Bill would require all documents in cases involving divorces to be translated or interpreted for foreign-born spouses. Naoko testified giving examples of the many cases she has witnessed where due to cultural and linguistic barriers, the outcomes were bleak due to spouses unknowingly signing away their rights. Linda testified that despite over 160 languages spoken in our state, which is the third most linguistically diverse in the nation, each WA State resident has a right to equal justice.