{"data":{"id":"us-ia/iowa-code-598b.112","jurisdiction":"us-ia","citation":"Iowa Code § 598B.112","heading":"Cooperation between courts — preservation of records.","body":"1. A court of this state may request the appropriate court of another state to do any or all of the following:\na. Hold an evidentiary hearing.\nb. Order a person to produce or give evidence pursuant to procedures of that state.\nc. Order that an evaluation be made with respect to the custody of a child involved in a pending proceeding.\nd. 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.\ne. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. 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.\n4. 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.","path":["Title XV - JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES (Ch. 595 - 686D)","Chapter 598B - UNIFORM CHILD-CUSTODY JURISDICTION AND ENFORCEMENT","Article I - GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2026/598B.112.pdf","current_through":"Iowa Code 2026 edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:40:15Z","sha256":"2b3641bf60e3fc025b89c7b533607a9f556e8b9f8dc8d8a78b31ad0944d462af","source_id":"us-ia","stale":false,"prev":"us-ia/iowa-code-598b.111","next":"us-ia/iowa-code-598b.201"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}