                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROCEEDINGS UNDER THIS CHAPTER (§ 20-88.44)

A. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, this article applies to all
proceedings under this chapter.

B. An individual or a support enforcement agency may initiate a proceeding
authorized under this chapter by filing a petition in an initiating tribunal for
forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a petition or a comparable
pleading directly in a tribunal of another state or foreign country that has or
can obtain personal jurisdiction over the respondent.

HISTORY: 1994, c. 673; 2005, c. 754; 2015, c. 727.