{"data":{"id":"us-la/rs-13-1812","jurisdiction":"us-la","citation":"RS 13:1812","heading":"Cooperation between courts; preservation of records","body":"A. A court of this state may request the appropriate court of another state to:\n(1) Hold an evidentiary hearing.\n(2) Order a person to produce or give evidence pursuant to procedures of that state.\n(3) Order that an evaluation be made with respect to the custody of a child involved in a pending proceeding.\n(4) 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.\n(5) 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.\nB. Upon request of a court of another state, a court of this state may hold a hearing or enter an order described in Subsection A of this Section.\nC. Travel and other necessary and reasonable expenses incurred under Subsections A and B of this Section may be assessed against the parties according to the law of this state.\nD. 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 13. COURTS AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE"],"source_url":"https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=408567","current_through":"2025 First Extraordinary Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:51:40Z","sha256":"2f57abdf9685dab5c5cb27c83dfed339cb9e7177e6bca2da3bbbe4e5c82b354a","source_id":"us-la","stale":false,"prev":"us-la/rs-13-1811","next":"us-la/rs-13-1813"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}