                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ESTABLISHMENT OF SUPPORT ORDER (§ 20-88.63)

A. If a support order entitled to recognition under this chapter has not been
issued, a responding tribunal of the Commonwealth with personal jurisdiction
over the parties may issue a support order if (i) the individual seeking the
order resides outside the Commonwealth or (ii) the support enforcement agency
seeking the order is located outside the Commonwealth.

B. The tribunal may issue a temporary child support order if the tribunal
determines that such an order is appropriate and the individual ordered to pay
is:

   1. A presumed father of the child;

   2. Petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated;

   3. Identified as the father of the child through genetic testing;

   4. An alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing;

   5. Shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child;

   6. An acknowledged father as provided by applicable state law;

   7. The mother of the child; or

   8. An individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous
   proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated.

C. Upon finding, after notice and opportunity to be heard, that an obligor owes
a duty of support, the tribunal shall issue a support order directed to the
obligor and may issue other orders pursuant to &#xA7; 20-88.48.

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