Code of Virginia - Title 20 Domestic Relations - Section 20-88.77:1 Jurisdiction to modify support order of another state when individual parties reside in this Common...

§ 20-88.77:1. Jurisdiction to modify support order of another state when individual parties reside in this Common...

A. If all of the parties who are individuals reside in this Commonwealth and the child does not reside in the issuing state, a tribunal of this Commonwealth has jurisdiction to enforce and to modify the issuing state's child support order in a proceeding to register that order.

B. A tribunal of this Commonwealth exercising jurisdiction as provided in this section shall apply the provisions of Articles 1 (§ 20-88.32 et seq.) and 2 (§ 20-88.35 et seq.), this article and the procedural and substantive law of this Commonwealth to the enforcement or modification. Articles 3 through 5 (§ 20-88.37 et seq.) and Articles 7 (§ 20-88.64 et seq.) and 8 (§ 20-88.66 et seq.) do not apply.

(1997, cc. 797, 897.)

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