West Virginia Code § 57-1-12

Authentication of records and proceedings of courts of United States or
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other states; full faith and credit.
The records and judicial proceedings of any court of the United States, or of any state or
territory, or of any country subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, shall be proved or
admitted in any court in this state, by the attestation of the clerk, and the seal of the court
annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of the judge, chief jusetice, or presiding
magistrate, that the said attestation is in due form. And the said records and judicial
proceedings, so authenticated, shall have such faith and credit given tor them in every court
within this state as they have by law or usage in the courts of the state or jurisdiction from
which they are taken. Full faith and credit for child support orders shall be accorded by this
state in conformity with federal law.

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