                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

INITIATION BY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES OF SUPPORT PROCEEDING UNDER
CONVENTION (§ 20-88.86)

A. In a support proceeding under this chapter, the Department of Social Services
of the Commonwealth shall:

   1. Transmit and receive applications; and

   2. Initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an
   application in a tribunal of the Commonwealth.

B. The following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the
Convention:

   1. Recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order;

   2. Enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in the Commonwealth;

   3. Establishment of a support order if there is no existing order, including,
   if necessary, determination of parentage of a child;

   4. Establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order
   is refused under subdivision B 2, 4, or 9 of &#xA7; 20-88.90;

   5. Modification of a support order of a tribunal of the Commonwealth; and

   6. Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign
   country.

C. The following support proceedings are available under the Convention to an
obligor against which there is an existing support order:

   1. Recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing
   support order of a tribunal of the Commonwealth;

   2. Modification of a support order of a tribunal of the Commonwealth; and

   3. Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign
   country.

D. A tribunal of the Commonwealth may not require security, bond, or deposit,
however described, to guarantee the payment of costs and expenses in proceedings
under the Convention.

HISTORY: 2015, c. 727.