                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ASSIGNMENT OF EARNINGS TO BE HONORED; INAPPLICABILITY OF § 40.1-31 (§
63.2-1945)

Any person, firm, corporation, association, political subdivision or department
of the Commonwealth employing a person owing a support debt or obligation, shall
honor an assignment of earnings to satisfy or retire a support debt or
obligation of such person when ordered by the Commissioner by a payroll
deduction order conforming to § 20-79.3. The rights and obligations of
employees with respect to an order issued pursuant to this section are set out
in § 20-79.3. Payment of moneys pursuant to an assignment of earnings presented
by the Commissioner shall serve as full acquittance under any contract of
employment, and the Commonwealth warrants and represents that it shall defend
and hold harmless such action taken pursuant to such assignment of earnings. The
Commissioner shall be released from liability for improper receipt of moneys
under an assignment of earnings upon return of any moneys so received.
		Any assignment of earnings presented under this section shall not be subject
to the requirements set forth in § 40.1-31.

HISTORY: 1974, c. 413, § 63.1-272; 1976, c. 357; 1980, c. 243; 1983, c. 481;
1984, c. 626; 1990, c. 896; 2002, c. 747.