                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

APPEAL (§ 20-68)

The person accused shall have the same right of appeal as provided by law in
other similar cases; provided that any order of court requiring support of a
spouse or children shall remain in full force and effect until reversed or
modified by judgment of a superior court, and in the interim the order shall be
enforceable by the court entering it and the court may punish for violation of
the order as for contempt. After the judgment of conviction and entry of order
of support from which no appeal is taken the hearing in the appellate court on
an appeal from any subsequent order, modification or amendment shall be
restricted to the particular matter or order appealed from.

HISTORY: 1944, p. 212; Michie Suppl. 1946, § 1937c; 1974, c. 464.