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§ 18.2-111.2 Failure to pay withheld child support; embezzlement

If any employer withholds money from the pay of his employee for the purpose of paying administrative or court-ordered child support on behalf of the employee and then wrongfully and fraudulently fails to make payment of the money withheld, the employer shall be guilty of embezzlement.

History

This law was first created in 1999. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 56 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.

1999, c. 56.

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