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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>73784</law_id><section_number>20-88.93</section_number><catch_line>Modification of Convention child support order</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>20-88.77:3</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="13">Support Proceeding Under Hague Convention</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A <span class="dictionary">tribunal</span> of the Commonwealth may not modify a <span class="dictionary">Convention</span> <span class="dictionary">child support order</span> if the <span class="dictionary">obligee</span> remains a resident of the <span class="dictionary">foreign country</span> where the support order was issued unless: <a id="paragraph-265328" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-88.93/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The <span class="dictionary">obligee</span> submits to the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> of a <span class="dictionary">tribunal</span> of the Commonwealth, either expressly or by defending on the merits of the case without objecting to the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> at the first available opportunity; or <a id="paragraph-265329" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-88.93/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> The <span class="dictionary">foreign tribunal</span> lacks or refuses to exercise <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> to modify its support order or <span class="dictionary">issue</span> a new support order. <a id="paragraph-265330" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-88.93/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If a tribunal of the Commonwealth does not modify a <span class="dictionary">Convention</span> <span class="dictionary">child support order</span> because the order is not recognized in the Commonwealth, subsection C of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Recognition and enforcement of registered convention support order" href="/20-88.90/">20-88.90</a> applies. <a id="paragraph-265331" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/20-88.93/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2015, c. 727.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
