2012 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 25 Marital and Domestic Relations
25-407 Legal decision-making and parenting time hearings; priority; costs; record
25-407. Legal decision-making and parenting time hearings; priority; costs; record
A. Legal decision-making and parenting time proceedings shall receive priority in being set for hearing.
B. The court may tax as costs the payment of necessary travel and other expenses incurred by any person whose presence at the hearing the court deems necessary to determine the best interest of the child.
C. The court, without a jury, shall determine questions of law and fact. If it finds that a public hearing may be detrimental to the child's best interest, the court may exclude the public from a custody hearing, but may admit any person who has a direct and legitimate interest in the particular case or a legitimate educational or research interest in the work of the court.
D. If the court finds that to protect the child's welfare, the record of any interview, report, investigation or testimony in a legal decision-making or parenting time proceeding should be kept secret, the court may then make an appropriate order sealing the record.
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