Every answer shows its work. Here's the work.

How an answer is made

Your question is searched against an indexed body of state statutes, court opinions and local ordinances — not the open internet, and not an AI model's memory. The answer is written only from what that search returns, and every legal claim in it carries a numbered citation to a specific source. Before you see anything, each citation is checked against the source it names: a quotation must match the source text verbatim, and a citation that cannot be verified is removed rather than shown. Dollar figures and dates the sources don't support are flagged or stripped the same way. If the reply is in Spanish, the law is still quoted in its original English and explained in Spanish — a translation is never presented as the law itself.

What is indexed, right now

Counted under the same filters the answer engine searches: a statute section is only counted if it is current law carrying a verification stamp — a section we can't verify isn't served to you, so it isn't advertised here either. Opinion counts cover the state's own courts and the federal courts sitting in that state.

What this is not

• It covers Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Texas, and Louisiana — and refuses the rest. A question about another state's law gets a refusal naming the states we do cover, not a guess dressed up as an answer.
• Local coverage is only what's listed above. Most cities and counties are not indexed yet. When yours isn't, the answer says so and sticks to state law.
• The sources are in English. Spanish answers explain in Spanish but quote the law in its original English, because the official text is the only thing we can verify against.
• The law moves. Each statute carries the verification stamp shown above, and each answer shows its sources' dates. A court decision or a new act can change the law after a stamp — one more reason big decisions deserve a lawyer.
• This is legal information, not legal advice. shark.law is not a law firm and is not your lawyer; using it creates no attorney–client relationship. It tells you what the law says — a lawyer tells you what to do about your situation, and when a question is worth one, the answer says that too.

How your question is handled — what is stored, what never is — is one honest page: the privacy policy. The terms are at /terms/consumer. shark.law is operated by Plaintify, which builds this same research engine for law firms.