2006 New York Code - Cooperation Between Courts; Preservation Of Records

 
    §  75-k.  Cooperation  between  courts;  preservation of records. 1. A
  court of this state may request the appropriate court of  another  state
  to:
    (a) hold an evidentiary hearing;
    (b)  order a person to produce or give evidence pursuant to procedures
  of that state;
    (c) order that an evaluation be made with respect to the custody of  a
  child involved in a pending proceeding;
    (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
    (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.
    2. Upon the request of a court of another state, a court of this state
  may hold a hearing or enter an order described  in  subdivision  one  of
  this section.
    3.  Travel  and other necessary and reasonable expenses incurred under
  subdivisions one and two of this section may  be  assessed  against  the
  parties according to the law of this state.
    4.  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 at least 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.