Iowa Code § 598B.112: Cooperation between courts — preservation of records.

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.

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.