                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONTEST BY OBLIGOR (§ 20-88.64:5)

A. An obligor may contest the validity or enforcement of an income-withholding
order issued in another state and received directly by an employer in the
Commonwealth by registering the order in a tribunal of the Commonwealth and
filing a contest to that order as provided in this chapter or otherwise
contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a
tribunal of the Commonwealth.

B. The obligor shall give notice of the contest to (i) a support enforcement
agency providing services to the obligee, (ii) each employer that has directly
received an income-withholding order relating to the obligor, and (iii) the
support enforcement agency designated to receive payments in the
income-withholding order.

HISTORY: 1997, cc. 797, 897; 2005, c. 754.