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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>75756</law_id><section_number>20-88.63</section_number><catch_line>Establishment of support order</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="6">Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> If a <span class="dictionary">support order</span> entitled to recognition under this chapter has not been issued, a <span class="dictionary">responding tribunal</span> of the Commonwealth with personal <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> over the parties may <span class="dictionary">issue</span> a <span class="dictionary">support order</span> if (i) the individual seeking the order resides <span class="dictionary">outside the Commonwealth</span> or (ii) the <span class="dictionary">support enforcement agency</span> seeking the order is located <span class="dictionary">outside the Commonwealth</span>. <a id="paragraph-271990" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-88.63/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The tribunal may <span class="dictionary">issue</span> a temporary <span class="dictionary">child support order</span> if the tribunal determines that such an order is appropriate and the individual ordered to pay is: <a id="paragraph-271991" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-88.63/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> A presumed father of the child; <a id="paragraph-271992" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-88.63/#B1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated; <a id="paragraph-271993" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-88.63/#B2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Identified as the father of the child through genetic testing; <a id="paragraph-271994" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-88.63/#B3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> An alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing; <a id="paragraph-271995" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-88.63/#B4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B5" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> Shown by clear and convincing <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> to be the father of the child; <a id="paragraph-271996" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-88.63/#B5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B6" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> An acknowledged father as provided by applicable <span class="dictionary">state</span> <span class="dictionary">law</span>; <a id="paragraph-271997" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-88.63/#B6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B7" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">7.</span> The mother of the child; or <a id="paragraph-271998" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-88.63/#B7"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B8" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">8.</span> An individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated. <a id="paragraph-271999" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-88.63/#B8"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Upon <span class="dictionary">finding</span>, after notice and opportunity to be heard, that an <span class="dictionary">obligor</span> owes a <span class="dictionary">duty of support</span>, the tribunal shall <span class="dictionary">issue</span> a support order directed to the <span class="dictionary">obligor</span> and may <span class="dictionary">issue</span> other <span class="dictionary">orders</span> pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Duties and powers of responding tribunal" href="/20-88.48/">20-88.48</a>. <a id="paragraph-272000" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-88.63/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1994, c. 673; 2005, c. 754; 2015, c. 727.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
