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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>60960</law_id><section_number>63.2-1918</section_number><catch_line>Administrative establishment of obligations</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>63.2-1922</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="63.2">Welfare (Social Services)</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="V">Administrative Child Support</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="19">Child Support Enforcement</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="4">Orders and Review</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall set <span class="dictionary">child</span> support at the amount resulting from computations pursuant to the guideline set out in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Guideline for determination of child support; quadrennial review by Child Support Guidelines Review Panel; executive summary" href="/20-108.2/">20-108.2</a> in determining the required monthly support obligation, the amount of support obligation arrearage, if any, and the amount to be paid periodically against such arrearage. There shall be a rebuttable <span class="dictionary">presumption</span> that the amount of the award which would result from the application of the guidelines is the correct amount of <span class="dictionary">child</span> support to be awarded. In order to rebut the <span class="dictionary">presumption</span>, the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall make written <span class="dictionary">findings</span> in its order that the application of the guidelines would be unjust or inappropriate in a particular case as determined by relevant <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> pertaining to support for other children in the household or other children for whom any administrative or <span class="dictionary">court order</span> exists, or relevant <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> pertaining to imputed <span class="dictionary">income</span> to a person who is voluntarily unemployed or who fails to provide verification of <span class="dictionary">income</span> upon request of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>, provided that <span class="dictionary">income</span> may not be imputed to the <span class="dictionary">custodial parent</span> because (i) a <span class="dictionary">child</span> is not regularly attending school, (ii) <span class="dictionary">child</span> care services are not available, or (iii) the cost of such <span class="dictionary">child</span> care services are not added to the basic <span class="dictionary">child</span> support obligation. In addition, a <span class="dictionary">party</span>&#x2019;s current incarceration, as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Purpose; action by the General Assembly required; definitions" href="/8.01-195.10/">8.01-195.10</a>, for 180 or more consecutive days shall not be deemed voluntary unemployment or voluntary underemployment. Additional factors that may lead to <span class="dictionary">rebuttal</span> of the <span class="dictionary">presumption</span> shall be determined by <span class="dictionary">Department</span> regulation.</p></section></text><history>1988, c. 907, &#xA7; 63.1-264.2; 1989, c. 599; 1992, c. 79; 1996, cc. 947, 1029; 2002, c. 747; 2022, c. 527.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
