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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77267</law_id><section_number>20-88.77:1</section_number><catch_line>Jurisdiction to modify support order of another state when individual parties reside in this Commonwealth</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>20-88.75</reference><reference>20-88.76</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="5.3">Uniform Interstate Family Support Act</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="9">Registration and Modification of Child Support Order</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> If all of the parties who are individuals reside in this Commonwealth and the child does not reside in the <span class="dictionary">issuing state</span>, a <span class="dictionary">tribunal</span> of this Commonwealth has <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> to enforce and to modify the <span class="dictionary">issuing state</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">child support order</span> in a proceeding to <span class="dictionary">register</span> that order. <a id="paragraph-277164" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-88.77_1/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> A <span class="dictionary">tribunal</span> of this Commonwealth exercising <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> as provided in this section shall apply the provisions of Articles 1 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/20-88.32/">20-88.32</a> et seq.) and 2 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident" href="/20-88.35/">20-88.35</a> et seq.), this article and the procedural and substantive <span class="dictionary">law</span> of this Commonwealth to the enforcement or modification. Articles 3 through 5 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Initiating and responding tribunal of the Commonwealth" href="/20-88.37/">20-88.37</a> et seq.) and Articles 7 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Employer's receipt of income-withholding order of another state" href="/20-88.64/">20-88.64</a> et seq.) and 8 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Registration of order for enforcement" href="/20-88.66/">20-88.66</a> et seq.) do not apply. <a id="paragraph-277165" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-88.77_1/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1997, cc. 797, 897.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
