Iowa Code 598B.112 – Cooperation between courts — preservation of records
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1. A court of this state may request the appropriate court of another state to do any or all of the following:
a. Hold an evidentiary hearing.
b. Order a person to produce or give evidence pursuant to procedures of that state.
c. Order that an evaluation be made with respect to the custody of a child involved in a pending proceeding.
d. Forward to the court of this state a certified copy of the transcript of the record of the hearing, the evidence otherwise presented, and any evaluation prepared in compliance with the request.
e. Order a party to a child-custody proceeding or any person having physical custody of the child to appear in the proceeding with or without the child.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 598B.112
- Child: means an individual who has not attained eighteen years of age. See Iowa Code 598B.102
- Child-custody proceeding: means a proceeding in which legal custody, physical custody, or visitation with respect to a child is an issue. See Iowa Code 598B.102
- Court: means an entity authorized under the law of a state to establish, enforce, or modify a child-custody determination. See Iowa Code 598B.102
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, or government; governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; public corporation; or any other legal or commercial entity. See Iowa Code 598B.102
- Physical custody: means the physical care and supervision of a child. See Iowa Code 598B.102
- Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
- Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Iowa Code 651.1
- Records: includes probate and other official public records, as well as records in the office of the county recorder. See Iowa Code 614.29
- State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Iowa Code 598B.102
- Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
2. Upon request of a court of another state, a court of this state may hold a hearing or enter an order described in subsection 1.
3. Travel and other necessary and reasonable expenses incurred under subsections 1 and 2 may be assessed against the parties according to the law of this state.
4. A court of this state shall preserve the pleadings, orders, decrees, records of hearings, evaluations, and other pertinent records with respect to a child-custody proceeding until the child attains eighteen years of age. Upon appropriate request by a court or law enforcement official of another state, the court shall forward a certified copy of those records.