In a proceeding to establish or enforce a support order or to determine parentage of a child, a tribunal of the Commonwealth may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident individual or the individual's guardian or conservator if:
1. The individual is personally served with process within the Commonwealth;
2. The individual submits to the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth by consent, by entering a general appearance, or by filing a responsive document having the effect of waiving any contest to personal jurisdiction;
3. The individual resided with the child in the Commonwealth;
4. The individual resided in the Commonwealth and paid prenatal expenses or provided support for the child;
5. The child resides in the Commonwealth as a result of the acts or directives of the individual;
6. The individual engaged in sexual intercourse in the Commonwealth and the child may have been conceived by the act of intercourse;
7. The individual asserted parentage of a child in the Virginia Birth Father Registry maintained in the Commonwealth by the Department of Social Services;
8. The exercise of personal jurisdiction is authorized under subdivision A 8 of § 8.01-328.1; or
9. There is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of the Commonwealth and the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.
The bases of personal jurisdiction set forth in this section or any other law of the Commonwealth may not be used to acquire personal jurisdiction for a tribunal of the Commonwealth to modify a child support order issued by a tribunal of another state unless the requirements of § 20-88.76 or 20-88.77:3 are met.
1994, c. 673; 2005, c. 754; 2015, c. 727; 2017, c. 200.
Structure Code of Virginia
Chapter 5.3 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
§ 20-88.32:1. Uniformity of application and construction
§ 20-88.33. Tribunals of the Commonwealth and support enforcement agency
§ 20-88.34. Remedies cumulative
§ 20-88.34:1. Application of chapter to resident of foreign country and foreign support proceeding
§ 20-88.35. Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident
§ 20-88.36. Duration of personal jurisdiction
§ 20-88.37. Initiating and responding tribunal of the Commonwealth
§ 20-88.38. Simultaneous proceedings in another state
§ 20-88.39. Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify child support order
§ 20-88.40. Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child support order
§ 20-88.41. Determination of controlling child support order
§ 20-88.42. Child support orders for two or more obligees
§ 20-88.43. Credit for payments
§ 20-88.43:1. Application to nonresident subject to personal jurisdiction
§ 20-88.43:2. Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify spousal support order
§ 20-88.44. Proceedings under this chapter
§ 20-88.45. Action by minor parent
§ 20-88.46. Application of law of the Commonwealth
§ 20-88.47. Duties of initiating tribunal
§ 20-88.48. Duties and powers of responding tribunal
§ 20-88.49. Inappropriate tribunal
§ 20-88.50. Duties of support enforcement agency
§ 20-88.51. Duty of Secretary of Health and Human Resources
§ 20-88.53. Duties of state information agency
§ 20-88.54. Pleadings and accompanying documents
§ 20-88.55. Nondisclosure of information in exceptional circumstances
§ 20-88.57. Limited immunity of petitioner
§ 20-88.58. Nonparentage as defense
§ 20-88.59. Special rules of evidence and procedure
§ 20-88.60. Communications between tribunals
§ 20-88.61. Assistance with discovery
§ 20-88.62. Receipt and disbursement of payments
§ 20-88.63. Establishment of support order
§ 20-88.63:1. Proceeding to determine parentage
§ 20-88.64. Employer's receipt of income-withholding order of another state
§ 20-88.64:1. Employer's compliance with income-withholding order of another state
§ 20-88.64:2. Compliance with two or more income-withholding orders
§ 20-88.64:3. Immunity from civil liability
§ 20-88.64:4. Penalties for noncompliance
§ 20-88.64:5. Contest by obligor
§ 20-88.65. Administrative enforcement of orders
§ 20-88.66. Registration of order for enforcement
§ 20-88.67. Procedure to register order for enforcement
§ 20-88.68. Effect of registration for enforcement
§ 20-88.69. Choice of law; statute of limitations
§ 20-88.70. Notice of registration of order; contest of validity or enforcement
§ 20-88.71. Procedure to contest validity or enforcement of registered support order
§ 20-88.72. Contest of registration or enforcement
§ 20-88.74. Procedure to register child support order of another state for modification
§ 20-88.75. Effect of registration for modification
§ 20-88.76. Modification of child support order of another state
§ 20-88.77. Recognition of order modified in another state
§ 20-88.77:2. Notice to issuing tribunal of modification
§ 20-88.77:3. Jurisdiction to modify child support order of foreign country
§ 20-88.77:4. Procedure to register child support order of foreign country for modification
§ 20-88.79. Grounds for rendition
§ 20-88.80. Conditions of rendition
§ 20-88.85. Relationship of Department of Social Services to United States central authority
§ 20-88.86. Initiation by Department of Social Services of support proceeding under convention
§ 20-88.88. Registration of Convention support order
§ 20-88.89. Contest of registered convention support order
§ 20-88.90. Recognition and enforcement of registered convention support order
§ 20-88.91. Partial enforcement
§ 20-88.92. Foreign support agreement
§ 20-88.93. Modification of Convention child support order
§ 20-88.94. Personal information; limit on use
§ 20-88.95. Record in original language; English translation