Va. Code Ann. § 20-124.5
Notification of relocation
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In any proceeding involving custody or visitation, the court shall include as a condition of any custody or visitation order a requirement that thirty days' advance written notice be given to the court and the other party by any party intending to relocate and of any intended change of address, unless the court, for good cause shown, orders otherwise. The court may require that the notice be in such form and contain such information as it deems proper and necessary under the circumstances of the case.
1994, c. 769.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 14
cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1997–2023 · leading case: Judd v. Judd
Judd v. Judd (2009)
“Pursuant to Code § 20-124.5, the consent order included the term that each party was required to provide thirty days advance written notice to the other party of any intended change of address, including “the specific street, route address, city or *583 county, state and zip…”
Stout v. Stout (1997)
“Stat. tit. 11, § 107.159 (1995)]; South Dakota, [S.”
Ireland v. Ireland (1998)
“§ 30-3-37 (1) (1995); Va. Code Ann. § 20-124.5 (Michie 1995); Wis.”
Riggins v. O'BRIEN (2000)
“Code § 20-124.5, which requires the inclusion of such a condition in each order of custody or visitation, was enacted in 1994, well after the entry of the parties’ decree.”
Robinson v. Robinson (2006)
“1 (2006)), and Virginia (Va.Code Ann. § 20-124.5 (2006)). These states require 45 days’ notice: Alabama (Ala.”
Michael Vechery v. Florence Cottet-Moine (2021)
“tive order entered by the circuit court was unreasonably disproportionate to the alleged harassing misconduct that father was found to have engaged in, amounted to an abuse of discretion, and constituted a violation of father’s fundamental due process right to raise his child;…”
Nathaniel Edward Green, III v. Edith H. Rameika (2023)
“As stated in the final custody and visitation order of August 2018 in accordance with Code § 20-124.5, father had an affirmative duty to update grandparents and the JDR court when his address changed.”
Christopher T. Takacs v. Heather L. Takacs (2016)
“Mother eventually accepted a full-time position making $23 1 Code § 20-124.5 requires the trial court, as a condition for any custody or visitation order, to include a requirement “that thirty days’ advance written notice be given to the court and the other party by any party…”
Heather Brooke Garner, f/k/a Heather Brooke Ruckman v. Mitchell Scott Ruckman (2011)
“3 1 Father lists two questions presented in his brief: (1) “Did the Trial Court err in denying Mitchell Ruckman’s Motion to Dismiss” and (2) “Whether the court abused its discretion in granting the Motion to Strike in a relocation case from Virginia to Pennsylvania after the…”
Thomas Lee Sowers v. Karen S. Walker (2011)
“guardian ad litem without determining the obligation to each parent and each parent’s ability to pay; and (6) denying Sowers’ motion to show cause because Walker failed to give thirty days written notice of the child’s move out of Virginia pursuant to Code § 20-124.5. Upon…”
Tonjia M. Demuth v. Richard P. Demuth (2008)
“The final decree of divorce and Code § 20-124.5 require that if mother decides to move in the future, she must file a notice of relocation.”
Mary Louise O'Brien v. Robert John Riggins (2000)
“5, which requires the trial court to include in its orders as a condition of custody or visitation "a requirement that thirty days' advance written notice be given to the court and the other party by any party intending to relocate and of any intended change of address, unless…”
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