20-124.9 - When no order is in place; expedited hearing. - Virginia Statutes

§ 20-124.9. When no order is in place; expedited hearing.

If no court order exists as to the custody, visitation, or support of a childof a deploying parent or guardian, any petition filed to establish custody,visitation, or support for a child of a deploying parent or guardian shall beso identified at the time of filing by the deploying parent or guardian toensure that the deploying parent or guardian has access to the child, andthat reasonable support and other orders are in place for the protection ofthe parent-child or guardian-child relationship, consistent with the otherprovisions of this chapter. Such petition shall be expedited on the court'sdocket in accordance with § 20-108.

(2008, c. 750.)