A. When a support order or income-withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order is registered, the registering tribunal of the Commonwealth shall notify the nonregistering party. The notice shall be accompanied by a copy of the registered order and the documents and relevant information accompanying the order.
B. A notice shall inform the nonregistering party:
1. That a registered order is enforceable as of the date of registration in the same manner as an order issued by a tribunal of the Commonwealth;
2. That a hearing to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered order shall be requested within 20 days after the notice unless the registered order is under § 20-88.89;
3. That failure to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered order in a timely manner will result in confirmation of the order and enforcement of the order and the alleged arrearages and precludes further contest of that order with respect to any matter that could have been asserted; and
4. Of the amount of any alleged arrearages.
C. If the registering party asserts that two or more orders are in effect, a notice shall also:
1. Identify the two or more orders and the order alleged by the party to be the controlling order and the consolidated arrears, if any;
2. Notify the nonregistering party of the right to a determination of which is the controlling order;
3. State that the procedures provided in subsection B apply to the determination of which is the controlling order; and
4. State that failure to contest the validity or enforcement of the order alleged to be the controlling order in a timely manner may result in confirmation that the order is the controlling order.
D. Upon registration of an income-withholding order for enforcement, the support enforcement agency or the registering tribunal shall notify the obligor's employer pursuant to the income-withholding for support law of the Commonwealth.
1994, c. 673; 1997, cc. 797, 897; 2005, c. 754; 2015, c. 727.
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