                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT REMEDIES AVAILABLE FOR INDIVIDUALS NOT RECEIVING PUBLIC
ASSISTANCE; FEES (§ 63.2-1904)

The Department shall make available to those individuals not receiving public
assistance, upon receipt of an authorization to seek or enforce a support
obligation the same support services provided to recipients of public
assistance. These services may include, but are not limited to:

1. Locating noncustodial parents to obtain child support;

2. Establishing paternity;

3. Establishing or modifying child support obligations, that shall include a
provision for health care coverage for dependent children of the parents; and

4. Enforcing and collecting child support obligations; however, the only support
in arrears that may be enforced by administrative action is (i) arrearages
accrued or accruing under a court order or decree or (ii) arrearages on an
administrative order accruing from the entry of such administrative order.
			No individual shall be required to obtain support services from the
Department prior to commencing a judicial proceeding to establish, modify,
enforce or collect a child support obligation.			The Board shall charge the
following fees:			a. One dollar, upon application for services pursuant to this
section. At the option of the Department, the fee may be paid by the Department
on behalf of the applicants;			b. Twenty-five dollars, for the cost of reopening
a case within six months of requesting case closure; and			c. Thirty-five
dollars per federal fiscal year in each case of an obligee who has never
received assistance pursuant to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
program and for whom the Department has collected at least $550 of child support
annually. The Department shall collect and retain such fee from the amount of
child support collected annually in excess of $550.			The Department is further
designated as the public entity responsible for implementing immediate income
withholding pursuant to &#xA7; 466 of the Social Security Act, as amended.

HISTORY: 1985, c. 488, § 63.1-250.2; 1986, c. 594; 1988, c. 906; 1992, c. 527;
1995, c. 714; 2002, c. 747; 2007, cc. 11, 600; 2019, c. 165.