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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65828</law_id><section_number>63.2-1928</section_number><catch_line>Service of lien</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>63.2-1939</reference><reference>63.2-1942</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="6">Enforcement Remedies</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> may at any time after the filing of a support <span class="dictionary">lien</span> serve a copy of said <span class="dictionary">lien</span> upon any person, firm, corporation, association, political subdivision or <span class="dictionary">department</span> of the Commonwealth in <span class="dictionary">possession</span> of earnings, or deposits or balances held in any bank account of any nature that are due, owing, or belonging to such debtor. Such support <span class="dictionary">lien</span> shall be served upon the person, firm, corporation, association, political subdivision or <span class="dictionary">department</span> of the Commonwealth either in the manner prescribed for the service of warrant in a <span class="dictionary">civil action</span> or by certified mail, return receipt requested. At any time after a support <span class="dictionary">lien</span> has been filed, the Director may notify consumer credit reporting agencies that the <span class="dictionary">lien</span> has been filed. No <span class="dictionary">lien</span> filed under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Assertion of lien; effect" href="/63.2-1927/">63.2-1927</a> shall have any effect against earnings or bank deposits or balances unless it states the amount of the support <span class="dictionary">debt</span> accrued and unless service upon such person, firm, corporation, association, political subdivision or <span class="dictionary">department</span> of the Commonwealth in <span class="dictionary">possession</span> of earnings or bank accounts, deposits or balances is accomplished pursuant to this section.</p></section></text><history>1974, c. 413, &#xA7; 63.1-255; 1976, c. 357; 1988, c. 906; 2002, c. 747.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
