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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>73881</law_id><section_number>20-109.1</section_number><catch_line>Affirmation, ratification and incorporation by reference in decree of agreement between parties</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>20-107.3</reference><reference>20-79.1</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>Any <span class="dictionary">court</span> may <span class="dictionary">affirm</span>, ratify and incorporate by reference in its <span class="dictionary">decree</span> dissolving a marriage or <span class="dictionary">decree</span> of divorce whether from the <span class="dictionary">bond</span> of matrimony or from bed and board, or by a separate <span class="dictionary">decree</span> prior to or subsequent to such <span class="dictionary">decree</span>, or in a <span class="dictionary">decree</span> entered in a suit for <span class="dictionary">annulment</span> or separate maintenance, and in a proceeding arising under subsection A 3 or L of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Jurisdiction; consent for abortion" href="/16.1-241/">16.1-241</a>, any valid agreement between the parties, or provisions thereof, concerning the conditions of the maintenance of the parties, or either of them and the care, <span class="dictionary">custody</span> and maintenance of their <span class="dictionary">minor</span> children, or establishing or imposing any other condition or consideration, monetary or nonmonetary. Provisions in such agreements for the modification of child support shall be valid and enforceable. Unless otherwise provided for in such agreement or <span class="dictionary">decree</span> incorporating such agreement, such future modifications shall not require a subsequent <span class="dictionary">court</span> <span class="dictionary">decree</span>. This section shall be subject to the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Revision and alteration of such decrees" href="/20-108/">20-108</a>. Where the <span class="dictionary">court</span> <span class="dictionary">affirms</span>, ratifies and incorporates by reference in its <span class="dictionary">decree</span> such agreement or provision thereof, it shall be deemed for all purposes to be a term of the <span class="dictionary">decree</span>, and enforceable in the same manner as any provision of such <span class="dictionary">decree</span>. The provisions of this section shall apply to any <span class="dictionary">decree</span> hereinbefore or hereinafter entered affirming, ratifying and incorporating an agreement as provided herein. Upon the death or remarriage of the spouse receiving support, spousal support shall terminate unless otherwise provided by <span class="dictionary">stipulation</span> or <span class="dictionary">contract</span>. In any case where <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> is obtained over a nonresident <span class="dictionary">defendant</span> by <span class="dictionary">order</span> of publication or by acceptance of service pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="How defendant may accept service; waive service" href="/20-99.1_1/">20-99.1:1</a>, any properly acknowledged and otherwise valid agreement entered into between the parties may be <span class="dictionary">affirmed</span>, ratified and incorporated as provided in this section.</p></section></text><history>1970, c. 501; 1972, c. 482; 1978, c. 746; 1979, c. 659; 1982, c. 312; 1987, c. 424; 1996, c. 331; 2003, c. 260.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
