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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58475</law_id><section_number>20-88.77:3</section_number><catch_line>Jurisdiction to modify child support order of foreign country</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>20-88.35</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> Except as provided in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Modification of Convention child support order" href="/20-88.93/">20-88.93</a>, if a <span class="dictionary">foreign country</span> lacks or refuses to exercise <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> to modify its <span class="dictionary">child support order</span> pursuant to its <span class="dictionary">laws</span>, a <span class="dictionary">tribunal</span> of the Commonwealth may assume <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span>, for good cause shown as ordered, to modify the <span class="dictionary">child support order</span> and bind all individuals subject to the personal <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> of the <span class="dictionary">tribunal</span> whether or not the consent to modification of a <span class="dictionary">child support order</span> otherwise required of the individual pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Modification of child support order of another state" href="/20-88.76/">20-88.76</a> has been given or whether the individual seeking modification is a resident of the Commonwealth or of the <span class="dictionary">foreign country</span>. <a id="paragraph-214300" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-88.77_3/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> An order issued by a <span class="dictionary">tribunal</span> of the Commonwealth modifying a foreign <span class="dictionary">child support order</span> pursuant to this section is the controlling order. <a id="paragraph-214301" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-88.77_3/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2005, c. 754; 2015, c. 727.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
