                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ADMISSIBILITY AND IDENTIFICATION OF SUPPORT PAYMENT RECORDS (§ 20-60.2)

Copies of support payment records maintained by the Department of Social
Services, when certified over the signature of a designated employee of such
entity, shall be considered to be satisfactorily identified and shall be
admitted in any proceeding as prima facie evidence of such transactions.
Additional proof of the official character of the person certifying such record
or the authenticity of his signature shall not be required. Whenever an employee
of the Department of Social Services is served with a summons, subpoena,
subpoena duces tecum or order directing him to produce such records, the
employee may comply by transmitting a copy of the payment records certified as
described above to the clerk of the court. Notwithstanding the provisions of
this section, a judge may, upon good cause shown and upon notice of the items in
the records being questioned, direct that an employee of the Department
personally appear.

HISTORY: 1985, c. 488.