CODE OF VIRGINIA

RECOGNIZANCE FOR COMPLIANCE WITH ORDER OR DECREE (§ 20-114)

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.

HISTORY: 1942, p. 639; Michie Code 1942, § 5111a; 1975, c. 644.