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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>54200</law_id><section_number>20-84</section_number><catch_line>Extradition</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="5">Desertion and Nonsupport</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Whenever the <span class="dictionary">judge</span> of, or <span class="dictionary">magistrate</span> serving, the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> wherein such <span class="dictionary">offense</span> is alleged to have been committed shall, after an investigation of the <span class="dictionary">facts</span> and circumstances thereof, certify that in his <span class="dictionary">opinion</span> the charge is well founded and the case a proper one for <span class="dictionary">extradition</span>, or in any case if the cost of <span class="dictionary">extradition</span> is borne by the parties interested in the case, the person charged with having left the Commonwealth with the intention of evading the terms of his or her <span class="dictionary">probation</span> or of abandoning or deserting his or her spouse, or his or her child or children, or failing to support them, shall be apprehended and brought back to the county or city having <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> of the case in accordance with the <span class="dictionary">law</span> providing for the apprehension and return to the Commonwealth of fugitives from justice, and upon <span class="dictionary">conviction</span> punished as hereinabove provided.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 1942; 1918, p. 761; 1922, p. 846; 1974, c. 464; 2008, cc. 551, 691.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
