{"data":{"id":"us-nh/rsa-458-a-11","jurisdiction":"us-nh","citation":"RSA 458-A:11","heading":"Cooperation Between Courts; Preservation of Records.","body":"I. A court of this state may request the appropriate court of another state to:\n(a) Hold an evidentiary hearing;\n(b) Order a person to produce or give evidence pursuant to procedures of that state;\n(c) Order that an evaluation be made with respect to the custody of a child involved in a pending proceeding;\n(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; and\n(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.\nII. Upon request of a court of another state, a court of this state may hold a hearing or enter an order described in paragraph I.\nIII. Travel and other necessary and reasonable expenses incurred under paragraphs I and II may be assessed against the parties according to the law of this state.\nIV. 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 18 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 XLIII: DOMESTIC RELATIONS","Chapter 458-A: UNIFORM CHILD CUSTODY JURISDICTION AND ENFORCEMENT ACT"],"source_url":"https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XLIII/458-A/458-A-11.htm","current_through":"2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T16:26:31Z","sha256":"839157c3511c68ae5f4cc679294a509de7850530574b7af5a23e86c46ba5e943","source_id":"us-nh","stale":false,"prev":"us-nh/rsa-458-a-10","next":"us-nh/rsa-458-a-12"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}