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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77010</law_id><section_number>63.2-510</section_number><catch_line>Obligation of person to support certain children living in same home; penalty</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="II">Public Assistance</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="5">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A person is responsible for the support and maintenance of any <span class="dictionary">child</span> or children living in the same home in which he and the natural or adoptive parent of such <span class="dictionary">child</span> or children cohabit as spouses and any such person who without cause willfully neglects or refuses or fails to provide for such support and maintenance is guilty of a <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span> and upon <span class="dictionary">conviction</span> shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Desertion or nonsupport of wife, husband or children in necessitous circumstances" href="/20-61/">20-61</a>.
		A pregnancy or the birth of a <span class="dictionary">child</span> during the time a person occupies the status set out above shall not be required as proof of cohabitation.
		The obligations imposed herein shall continue so long as such person occupies the status herein described.</p></section></text><history>1972, c. 536, &#xA7; 63.1-90.1; 1974, c. 464; 2002, c. 747; 2020, c. 900.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
