{"data":{"id":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-452.735","jurisdiction":"us-mo","citation":"Mo. Rev. Stat. § 452.735","heading":"Cooperation between courts — preservation of records.","body":"1. 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 under 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; and\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.\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 of this section.\n3. Travel and other necessary and reasonable expenses incurred under subsection 1 or 2 of this section 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 such records.","path":["Title XXX - DOMESTIC RELATIONS","Chapter 452 - Dissolution of Marriage, Divorce, Alimony and Separate Maintenance"],"source_url":"https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=452.735","current_through":"2026 legislative session (floor)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T22:23:28Z","sha256":"f8638f3088f4eb16ef63e11548a8154f63157f48bb5ab823e086cfdbe78e4329","source_id":"us-mo","stale":false,"prev":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-452.730","next":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-452.740"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}