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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>70653</law_id><section_number>20-88.43:1</section_number><catch_line>Application to nonresident subject to personal jurisdiction</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="5.3">Uniform Interstate Family Support Act</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Reconciliation of Two or More Orders</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A <span class="dictionary">tribunal</span> of the Commonwealth exercising personal <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> over a nonresident in a proceeding under this chapter, under other <span class="dictionary">law</span> of the Commonwealth relating to a support order, or recognizing a <span class="dictionary">foreign support order</span> may receive <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> from <span class="dictionary">outside the Commonwealth</span> pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Special rules of evidence and procedure" href="/20-88.59/">20-88.59</a>, communicate with a <span class="dictionary">tribunal</span> of another <span class="dictionary">state</span> <span class="dictionary">outside the Commonwealth</span> pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Communications between tribunals" href="/20-88.60/">20-88.60</a> and obtain <span class="dictionary">discovery</span> through a <span class="dictionary">tribunal</span> <span class="dictionary">outside the Commonwealth</span> pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Assistance with discovery" href="/20-88.61/">20-88.61</a>. In all other respects, Articles 5 through 9 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Proceedings under this chapter" href="/20-88.44/">20-88.44</a> et seq.) do not apply and the <span class="dictionary">tribunal</span> shall apply the procedural and substantive <span class="dictionary">law</span> of the Commonwealth.</p></section></text><history>2005, c. 754; 2015, c. 727.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
