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Statutes > Virginia > Title-20 > Chapter-4-1 > 20-60-2§ 20-60.2. Admissibility and identification of support payment records.
Copies of support payment records maintained by the Department of SocialServices, when certified over the signature of a designated employee of suchentity, shall be considered to be satisfactorily identified and shall beadmitted in any proceeding as prima facie evidence of such transactions.Additional proof of the official character of the person certifying suchrecord or the authenticity of his signature shall not be required. Wheneveran employee of the Department of Social Services is served with a summons,subpoena, subpoena duces tecum or order directing him to produce suchrecords, the employee may comply by transmitting a copy of the paymentrecords certified as described above to the clerk of the court.Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, a judge may, upon good causeshown and upon notice of the items in the records being questioned, directthat an employee of the Department personally appear.
(1985, c. 488.)
