2015 Code of Virginia
Title 20 - Domestic Relations
§ 20-114. Recognizance for compliance with order or decree

VA Code § 20-114 (2015) What's This?

Upon the entry, or thereafter, of any order or decree for support and maintenance for a spouse or a child or children in a pending or concluded divorce suit, a mensa et thoro or a vinculo matrimonii or suit for separate maintenance, the court in its discretion may require the giving of a recognizance, with or without surety, for compliance therewith, by the party against whom such order or decree is entered.

1942, p. 639; Michie Code 1942, ยง 5111a; 1975, c. 644.

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