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This law was first created in 1994. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 673<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 2005, chapter 754<\/a>; in 2015, chapter 727<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":178729,"object_type":"law","relational_id":62140,"identifier":"20-88.42","token":"20\/5.3\/4\/20-88.42","url":"\/20-88.42\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/20-88.42\/","token":"20\/5.3\/4\/20-88.42","dublin_core":{"Title":"Child support orders for two or more obligees","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 20-88.42","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

In responding to registrations or petitions<\/span> for enforcement of two or more child support orders<\/span> in effect at the same time with regard to the same obligor<\/span> and different individual obligees<\/span>, at least one of which was issued by a tribunal<\/span> of another state<\/span> or a foreign country<\/span>, a tribunal<\/span> of the Commonwealth shall enforce those orders in the same manner as if the orders had been issued by a tribunal<\/span> of the Commonwealth.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCHILD SUPPORT ORDERS FOR TWO OR MORE OBLIGEES (\u00a7 20-88.42)\n\nIn responding to registrations or petitions for enforcement of two or more child\nsupport orders in effect at the same time with regard to the same obligor and\ndifferent individual obligees, at least one of which was issued by a tribunal of\nanother state or a foreign country, a tribunal of the Commonwealth shall enforce\nthose orders in the same manner as if the orders had been issued by a tribunal\nof the Commonwealth.\n\nHISTORY: 1994, c. 673; 2005, c. 754; 2015, c. 727.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}