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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>64810</law_id><section_number>20-146.14</section_number><catch_line>Jurisdiction to modify determination</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>20-146.13</reference><reference>20-146.15</reference><reference>20-146.19</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="7.1">Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Jurisdiction</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Except as otherwise provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Temporary emergency jurisdiction" href="/20-146.15/">20-146.15</a>, a <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the Commonwealth may not modify a child <span class="dictionary">custody</span> determination made by a <span class="dictionary">court</span> of another state unless a <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the Commonwealth has <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> to make an initial determination under subdivision A 1 or A 2 of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Initial child custody jurisdiction" href="/20-146.12/">20-146.12</a> and:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the other state determines that it no longer has exclusive, continuing <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Exclusive, continuing jurisdiction" href="/20-146.13/">20-146.13</a> or that a <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the Commonwealth would be a more convenient forum under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Inconvenient forum" href="/20-146.18/">20-146.18</a>; or <a id="paragraph-235885" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-146.14/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> A <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the Commonwealth or a <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the other state determines that neither a parent of the child, nor the child, nor any person acting as a parent of the child presently resides in the other state. <a id="paragraph-235886" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-146.14/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1979, c. 229, &#xA7; 20-137; 2001, c. 305; 2016, c. 179.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
