20-78 - Continuance of failure to support after completion of sentence. - Virginia Statutes

§ 20-78. Continuance of failure to support after completion of sentence.

Any person sentenced under §§ 20-72 to 20-79 who, after the completion ofsuch sentence, shall continue in his or her failure, without just cause,adequately to support his or her spouse or children, as the case may be, mayagain be sentenced on the original petition, as for a new offense, in thesame manner and under like conditions as herein provided, and so on from timeto time, as often as such failure or failures shall occur.

(Code 1919, § 1939; 1932, p. 467; 1940, p. 478; 1974, c. 464.)