CHAPTER 12

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
20-88.1, providing for transfer of certain cases between courts, in
certain instances.

'S 73]

Approved February 10, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
20-83.1, as follows:

§ 20-83.1. (a) In the event that a wife or dependent child has left
the jurisdiction of the court in which the original petition was filed, but
is still within the State, and the accused is not within the jurisdiction
embraced by such court, on motion of the wife or child, or the person
having custody of such child, the court in which the original petition
was filed may transfer the case to the court having original jurisdiction
to hear such petitions in the county or city in this State in which the
wife or child resides. The court to which such case has been transferred
shall have power to enforce such orders and decrees as may have been
made in the court transferring the case as though the petition had been
originally filed therein, and to make such other orders and decrees as
may be necessary to enforce the provisions of this chapter.

(b) In the event that an appeal is pending in a court of record in
this State from the decision of any court having jurisdiction to hear
such petitions, upon motion of the wife or child, or the person having
custody of the child, stating that such wife or child no longer resides
within the jurisdiction of such court of record, such court, upon reaching
its decision, may transfer the case to the court having original jurisdic-
tion to hear such petitions in the county or city in which the wife or
child resides in the same manner and to the same effect as provided
in (a) hereof.