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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>66604</law_id><section_number>20-113</section_number><catch_line>Procedure when respondent fails to perform order for support and maintenance of child or spouse or owes support and maintenance or additional support and maintenance</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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>, when it finds the respondent has failed to perform the order of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> concerning the <span class="dictionary">custody</span> or the maintenance and support of the child or support and maintenance of the spouse, or under the existing circumstances is under the duty to render support or additional support to the child or to pay for the support and maintenance of the spouse, may proceed to deal with the respondent as provided in &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Enforcement of support orders; income deduction; penalty for wrongful discharge" href="/20-79.1/">20-79.1</a>, <a class="law" title="Recognizance for compliance with order or decree" href="/20-114/">20-114</a>, and <a class="law" title="Commitment and sentence for failure to comply with order or decree" href="/20-115/">20-115</a>. In addition, the <span class="dictionary">court</span> may enter a qualified domestic relations order or other order for the purpose of enforcing a support order by attaching or garnishing any pension, profit-sharing, or deferred compensation plan or retirement benefits pursuant to the United States Internal Revenue Code or other applicable federal <span class="dictionary">laws</span>. The <span class="dictionary">court</span> may revise and alter its <span class="dictionary">decree</span> as to the child or support and maintenance of the spouse, and grant leave to the petitioner to proceed in the appropriate juvenile and domestic relations district <span class="dictionary">court</span> in conformity with any applicable <span class="dictionary">law</span>; or it may, at the application of any <span class="dictionary">party</span> or on its own <span class="dictionary">motion</span> certify its <span class="dictionary">final order</span> granting support of the child or support and maintenance of the spouse to such juvenile and domestic relations district <span class="dictionary">court</span> for enforcement of collection as though such order had been made in such juvenile and domestic relations district <span class="dictionary">court</span>, in accordance with &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Effect of divorce proceedings" href="/20-79/">20-79</a> (c).
		When the petitioner has been granted leave to proceed in a juvenile and domestic relations district <span class="dictionary">court</span> all proceedings thereafter shall conform to the provisions of Chapter 5 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Desertion or nonsupport of wife, husband or children in necessitous circumstances" href="/20-61/">20-61</a> et seq.).</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 5111; 1944, p. 398; 1948, p. 593; 1964, c. 273; 1968, c. 483; 1970, c. 761; 1975, c. 644; 1982, c. 298; 2012, c. 39.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
