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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>75906</law_id><section_number>20-108</section_number><catch_line>Revision and alteration of such decrees</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>20-109.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="20">Domestic Relations</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="6">Divorce, Affirmation and Annulment</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">court</span> may, from time to time after decreeing as provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Court may decree as to custody and support of children" href="/20-107.2/">20-107.2</a>, on <span class="dictionary">petition</span> of either of the parents, or on its own <span class="dictionary">motion</span> or upon <span class="dictionary">petition</span> of any <span class="dictionary">probation officer</span> or the Department of Social Services, which <span class="dictionary">petition</span> shall set forth the reasons for the relief sought, revise and alter such <span class="dictionary">decree</span> concerning the care, <span class="dictionary">custody</span>, and maintenance of the children and make a new <span class="dictionary">decree</span> concerning the same, as the circumstances of the parents and the benefit of the children may require. The intentional withholding of visitation of a child from the other parent without just cause may constitute a <span class="dictionary">material</span> change of circumstances justifying a change of <span class="dictionary">custody</span> in the discretion of the <span class="dictionary">court</span>.
		No support <span class="dictionary">order</span> may be retroactively modified, but may be modified with respect to any period during which there is a pending <span class="dictionary">petition</span> for modification in any <span class="dictionary">court</span>, but only from the date that notice of such <span class="dictionary">petition</span> has been given to the responding <span class="dictionary">party</span>.
		Any member of the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Space Force, National Guard, or any other reserve component thereof, who files a <span class="dictionary">petition</span> or is a <span class="dictionary">party</span> to a <span class="dictionary">petition</span> requesting the adjudication of the <span class="dictionary">custody</span>, visitation or support of a child based on a change of circumstances due to one of the parent&#x2019;s deployment, as that term is defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/20-124.7/">20-124.7</a>, shall be entitled to have such a <span class="dictionary">petition</span> expedited on the <span class="dictionary">docket</span> of the <span class="dictionary">court</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 5111; 1926, p. 105; 1927, p. 184; 1934, p. 515; 1938, p. 784; 1944, p. 397; 1948, p. 593; 1986, c. 537; 1987, c. 649; 1991, c. 438; 2002, c. 747; 2004, c. 204; 2006, c. 371; 2011, c. 351; 2024, cc. 22, 817.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
