                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REVISION AND ALTERATION OF SUCH DECREES (§ 20-108)

The court may, from time to time after decreeing as provided in § 20-107.2, on
petition of either of the parents, or on its own motion or upon petition of any
probation officer or the Department of Social Services, which petition shall set
forth the reasons for the relief sought, revise and alter such decree concerning
the care, custody, and maintenance of the children and make a new decree
concerning the same, as the circumstances of the parents and the benefit of the
children may require. The intentional withholding of visitation of a child from
the other parent without just cause may constitute a material change of
circumstances justifying a change of custody in the discretion of the court.
		No support order may be retroactively modified, but may be modified with
respect to any period during which there is a pending petition for modification
in any court, but only from the date that notice of such petition has been given
to the responding party.
		Any member of the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast
Guard, Space Force, National Guard, or any other reserve component thereof, who
files a petition or is a party to a petition requesting the adjudication of the
custody, visitation or support of a child based on a change of circumstances due
to one of the parent&#8217;s deployment, as that term is defined in § 20-124.7,
shall be entitled to have such a petition expedited on the docket of the court.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 5111; 1926, p. 105; 1927, p. 184; 1934, p. 515; 1938, p.
784; 1944, p. 397; 1948, p. 593; 1986, c. 537; 1987, c. 649; 1991, c. 438; 2002,
c. 747; 2004, c. 204; 2006, c. 371; 2011, c. 351; 2024, cc. 22, 817.