CHAPTER 483

An Act to amend and re-enact § 20-113, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to procedure when respondent in divorce cases fails to perform
duty of support of child or alimony, or owes support or alimony or
additional support, referral to juvenile and domestic relations court.

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Approved April 4, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 20-113 as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 20-118. Procedure when respondent fails to perform order for
support of child or alimony or owes support or alimony or additional
support.—The court, when it finds the respondent has failed to perform
the order of the court concerning the support of the child or payment of
alimony, or under the existing circumstances is under the duty to render
support or additional support to the child or to pay alimony, may proceed
to deal with the respondent as provided in §§ 20-114 and 20-115; * it may
revise and alter its decree as to the child or payment of alimony, and grant
leave to the petitioner to proceed in the appropriate juvenile and domestic
relations court in conformity with any applicable law; or it may, at the
application of the petitioner, certify its final order granting support of the
child or payment of alimony to such juvenile and domestic relations court
for enforcement of collection as though such order had been made in such
juvenile and domestic relations court, but any proceeding for modification
of said order shall remain with the Court of record.

When the petitioner has been granted leave to proceed in a juvenile
and domestic relations court all proceedings thereafter shall conform to the
provisions of chapter 5 (§ 20-61 et seq.) of this title.