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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>61523</law_id><section_number>63.2-1934</section_number><catch_line>Action for foreclosure of lien; satisfaction</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>63.2-1935</reference><reference>63.2-1939</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>Whenever a support <span class="dictionary">lien</span> has been filed, an action in foreclosure of <span class="dictionary">lien</span> upon real or personal property may be brought in the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> wherein such real or personal property is or was located and the <span class="dictionary">lien</span> was filed. Judgment if rendered in favor of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall be for the amount due, with costs, and the <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall allow, as part of the costs, the moneys paid for making and filing the claim of <span class="dictionary">lien</span>, and a reasonable attorney&#x2019;s fee. The <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall <span class="dictionary">order</span> any property upon which any <span class="dictionary">lien</span> provided for by this chapter is established, to be sold by the sheriff of the proper <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> to satisfy the <span class="dictionary">lien</span> and costs. The payment of the <span class="dictionary">lien</span> <span class="dictionary">debt</span>, costs and reasonable attorney&#x2019;s fees, at any time before sale, shall satisfy the judgment of foreclosure. Where the net proceeds of sale upon application to the <span class="dictionary">debt</span> claimed do not satisfy the <span class="dictionary">debt</span> in full, the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall have judgment over any deficiency remaining unsatisfied and further <span class="dictionary">levy</span> upon other property of the <span class="dictionary">judgment debtor</span> may be made under the same execution. In all sales contemplated under this section, advertising of notice shall only be necessary for two weeks in a newspaper published in the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> where such property is located, and if there be no newspaper therein, then in the most convenient newspaper having a circulation in such <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span>. Remedies provided for herein are alternatives to remedies provided for in other sections of this chapter.</p></section></text><history>1974, c. 413, &#xA7; 63.1-262; 1976, c. 357; 1988, c. 906; 2002, c. 747.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
