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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?151+ful+CHAP0727\">727<\/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.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":61479,"section_number":"20-88.66","catch_line":"Registration of order for enforcement","order_by":null,"url":"\/20-88.66\/"}],"permalink":{"id":178927,"object_type":"law","relational_id":64975,"identifier":"20-88.77:4","token":"20\/5.3\/9\/20-88.77_4","url":"\/20-88.77_4\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/20-88.77_4\/","token":"20\/5.3\/9\/20-88.77_4","dublin_core":{"Title":"Procedure to register child support order of foreign country for modification","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 20-88.77:4","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>A <span class=\"dictionary\">party<\/span> or <span class=\"dictionary\">support enforcement agency<\/span> seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, a foreign <span class=\"dictionary\">child support order<\/span> not under the <span class=\"dictionary\">Convention<\/span> may <span class=\"dictionary\">register<\/span> that order in the Commonwealth under Article 8 (\u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"Registration of order for enforcement\" href=\"\/20-88.66\/\">20-88.66<\/a> et seq.) if the order has not been registered. A <span class=\"dictionary\">petition<\/span> for modification may be filed at the same time as a request for registration or at another time. The <span class=\"dictionary\">petition<\/span> must specify the grounds for modification.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nPROCEDURE TO REGISTER CHILD SUPPORT ORDER OF FOREIGN COUNTRY FOR MODIFICATION\n(\u00a7 20-88.77:4)\n\nA party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and\nenforce, a foreign child support order not under the Convention may register\nthat order in the Commonwealth under Article 8 (\u00a7 20-88.66 et seq.) if the\norder has not been registered. A petition for modification may be filed at the\nsame time as a request for registration or at another time. The petition must\nspecify the grounds for modification.\n\nHISTORY: 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}}