Source: https://familylaw.typepad.com/virginiafamilylawappeals/child_support_compliance_enforcement/
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 05:50:25+00:00

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A mother can still be held in contempt for not paying child support, even if she were owed a support arrearage by the father from before custody was transferred to him, the Virginia Court of Appeals says in Wilson v. Britton (unpublished 9/15/15).
The trial court and the Division of Child Support Enforcement had found that the father did not owe any unpaid child support at the time that custody and child support were transferred to him.
And even if, as the mother claimed, he did owe, and even if the father's court-ordered child support obligation still existed, "mother's child support obligation nonetheless still exists."
Original Jurisdiction in post-divorce child support modification - Va.Ct.App.
JURISDICTION AND VENUE – JDR AND CIRCUIT COURT – JDR-COURT TRANSFERS – POST-DIVORCE MODIFICATION – CHILD SUPPORT — INTER- CIRCUIT “REMANDS.” The continuing modification jurisdiction that §20-108 gives a circuit court that has granted a divorce decree is exclusive jurisdiction, the Court of Appeals declares. And what’s more, that means only that circuit, and not other circuit courts in Virginia, can do the modifying. A case involving post-divorce of modification of child support by a juvenile court, which of course happens in appropriate cases (where the circuit court remanded the matter after the divorce decree), further elucidated this matter. This case arose from the father’s non-support contempt determination and the increase of his obligation by the Circuit Court of Fauquier County. By the time that happened both parents had already moved to Fairfax. In the fifth year after their move, the mother moved in the Fauquier County Juvenile Court to transfer venue to the Fairfax Juvenile Court, though the Fauquier circuit court had never remanded or transferred the case down to JDR. So the father filed a modification motion in Fairfax to oppose hers, and the DCSE moved to intervene. The Fairfax Circuit Court held that it had no jurisdiction under §20-79 (c), observing that the Fauquier Circuit could not have transferred this case if it had wanted to (as a post-divorce modification matter). The Court of Appeals affirmed that, explaining the §20-108 provision for post-divorce modification jurisdiction. That modification jurisdiction is also stated in §20-7.2, but it is more closely defined in §20-108. Section 20-108 says “the court may...after decreeing [child support], alter such decree” and this shows the Court of Appeals’ rather clear intention of the General Assembly to restrict the modification power to the original circuit court. Williams v. Williams, 61 Va. App. 170, 734 S.E.2d 186 (11/27/12).

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