It is the purpose of this chapter to promote the efficient and accurate collection, accounting and receipt of support for financially dependent children and their custodians, and to further the effective and timely enforcement of such support while ensuring that all functions in the Department are appropriate or necessary to comply with applicable federal law.
Nonattorney employees of the Department are authorized to complete, sign and file petitions and motions on forms approved by the Supreme Court of Virginia relating to the establishment, modification, or enforcement of support in Department cases in the juvenile and domestic relations district courts. Orders entered prior to July 1, 2008, shall not be deemed void or voidable solely because such petitions and motions were signed by nonattorney employees.
When so ordered by the court or the Department, support for financially dependent children and their custodians shall be paid by obligors to the Department's State Disbursement Unit (SDU) or in district offices located within the Commonwealth for processing by the SDU. The Department shall have authority to enter into contracts with any appropriate public or private entities to enforce, collect, account for and disburse payments for child or spousal support.
The Division of Child Support Enforcement within the Department shall be authorized to issue payments to implement the disbursement of funds pursuant to the provisions of this section.
1974, c. 413, § 63.1-249; 1975, c. 596; 1976, c. 357; 1987, cc. 658, 706; 1998, c. 727; 2001, c. 573; 2002, c. 747; 2008, cc. 136, 845.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 63.2 - Welfare (Social Services)
Chapter 19 - Child Support Enforcement
§ 63.2-1901. Purpose of chapter; powers and duties of the Department
§ 63.2-1903. Authority to issue certain orders; civil penalty
§ 63.2-1905. Establishment of State Case Registry
§ 63.2-1906. Department may disclose information to Internal Revenue Services
§ 63.2-1907. Child support enforcement; private contracts
§ 63.2-1908.1. Arrears compromise program
§ 63.2-1911. Duty of local departments to enforce support; referral to Department
§ 63.2-1912. Minor noncustodial parents whose child receives TANF; child support obligations
§ 63.2-1913. Administrative establishment of paternity
§ 63.2-1914. Hospital paternity establishment programs
§ 63.2-1915. Administrative support order
§ 63.2-1916. Notice of administrative support order; contents; hearing; modification
§ 63.2-1917. When delivery of notice to party at last known address may be deemed sufficient
§ 63.2-1918. Administrative establishment of obligations
§ 63.2-1919. Requirement to provide financial statements
§ 63.2-1920. Department may order exchange of financial information
§ 63.2-1921. Authority to initiate reviews of certain orders
§ 63.2-1923. Immediate withholding from income; exception; notices required
§ 63.2-1924.1. Health care coverage; National Medical Support Notice
§ 63.2-1925. Certain amount of income that may be withheld by lien or order
§ 63.2-1926. Withholding pursuant to foreign support order
§ 63.2-1927. Assertion of lien; effect
§ 63.2-1930. Civil liability upon failure to comply with lien, order, etc.
§ 63.2-1931. Effect of service on banks, savings institutions, etc.
§ 63.2-1932. Data exchange agreements authorized; immunity
§ 63.2-1932.1. Automated administrative enforcement in interstate cases
§ 63.2-1933. Distraint, seizure and sale of property subject to liens
§ 63.2-1934. Action for foreclosure of lien; satisfaction
§ 63.2-1935. Satisfaction of lien after foreclosure proceedings instituted; redemption
§ 63.2-1936. Procedures for posting security, bond or guarantee to secure payment of overdue support
§ 63.2-1938. Commissioner may release lien or order or return seized property
§ 63.2-1939. Commissioner may make demand, file and serve liens, when payments appear in jeopardy
§ 63.2-1940. Reporting payment arrearage information to consumer credit reporting agencies
§ 63.2-1940.1. Publishing a most wanted delinquent parent list; coordinated arrests
§ 63.2-1941. Additional enforcement remedies
§ 63.2-1943. Appeal from decision of hearing officer
§ 63.2-1944. Employee debtor rights protected; limitation
§ 63.2-1945. Assignment of earnings to be honored; inapplicability of § 40.1-31
§ 63.2-1947. Assistance by Office of the Attorney General
§ 63.2-1948. Payment by Department for legal services
§ 63.2-1949. Authority of city, county, or attorney for the Commonwealth to represent the Department
§ 63.2-1950. Child support enforcement privatized legal services
§ 63.2-1951. Interest on support payments collected
§ 63.2-1952. Interest on debts due
§ 63.2-1953. Disposition of funds collected as debts to Department
§ 63.2-1954. Distribution of collection
§ 63.2-1955. Distribution of collections from federal tax refund offsets
§ 63.2-1956. Release of excess funds to debtor
§ 63.2-1957. Unidentifiable moneys held in special account
§ 63.2-1958. Charging off support debts as uncollectible