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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>54433</law_id><section_number>63.2-1926</section_number><catch_line>Withholding pursuant to foreign 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="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="5">Income Withholding</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If a <span class="dictionary">court</span> of competent <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> or the agency operating pursuant to an approved state plan under Sections 452 and 454 of the Social Security Act, as amended, in any state, territory of the United States or the District of Columbia has ordered a person to pay <span class="dictionary">child</span> or <span class="dictionary">child</span> and spousal support, upon notice and <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> as provided in this section, the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall order such <span class="dictionary">noncustodial parent</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">employer</span> in this Commonwealth to withhold from the earnings of the <span class="dictionary">noncustodial parent</span> pursuant to a <span class="dictionary">foreign support order</span> in the same manner as provided in &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Immediate withholding from income; exception; notices required" href="/63.2-1923/">63.2-1923</a> and <a class="law" title="Withholding from income; default of administrative or judicial support order; notices required; priorities; orders from other states" href="/63.2-1924/">63.2-1924</a>.</p></section></text><history>1988, c. 906, &#xA7; 63.1-258.2; 2002, c. 747.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
