CHAPTER 636

An Act to amend and reenact § 20-79 of the Code of Virginia, as amended,
relating to the effect of divorce proceedings in desertion and non-
support proceedings.

[H 826]

Approved March 81, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 20-79 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, be amended and
reenacted by amending subsection (c) thereto so as to read as follows:

§ 20-79. Effect of divorce proceedings. — (a) In any case where an
order has been entered under the provisions of this chapter, directing a
husband to pay any sum or sums of money for the support of his wife, or
concerning the care, custody or maintenance of any child or children, the
jurisdiction of the court which entered such order shall cease and its
orders become inoperative upon the entry of a decree by the court or the
judge thereof in vacation in a suit for divorce instituted in any court of
record having jurisdiction thereof, in which decree provision is made for
alimony or support money for the wife or concerning the care, custody
or maintenance of a child or children, or concerning any matter provided
in F Canny in the divorce proceedings in accordance with the provisions
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‘(b) In any suit for divorce Ae court in which same is instituted or
pending, when either party to the proceedings so requests, shall provide
in its decree for the maintenance, support, care or custody of the child or
children, alimony if the same be sought, and counsel fees and other costs,
m in . the judgment of the court any or all of the foregoing should be so

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(c) Provided, that im any suit for divorce or suit for maintenance and
support the court may wn any decree of divoree a mensa et thoro, decree
of divorce a vinculo matrimonit, final decree for maintenance and support,
or subsequent decree in such suit, transfer to the juvenile and domestic
relations court, or other appropriate court, all matters pertaining to ali-
mony, maintenance, support, care and custody of the child or children
for the enforcement of such decrees, or for the modification or revision
thereof as the circumstances may require. All proceedings in such juvenile
and domestic relations court shall be in conformity with the provisions of
Chapter 5 of Title 20 of this Code, and to the same extent as if the pro-
ceedings had originated in such court.