2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS
Chapter 54 - Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement
5412 - Cooperation between courts; preservation of records.

     § 5412.  Cooperation between courts; preservation of records.
        (a)  Assistance of another state.--A court of this
     Commonwealth may request the appropriate court of another state
     to:
            (1)  hold an evidentiary hearing;
            (2)  order a person to produce or give evidence pursuant
        to procedures of that state;
            (3)  order that an evaluation be made with respect to the
        custody of a child involved in a pending proceeding;
            (4)  forward to the court of this Commonwealth 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
            (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.
        (b)  Assistance to another state.--Upon request of a court of
     another state, a court of this Commonwealth may hold a hearing,
     enter an order or forward transcripts, evidence and evaluations
     described in subsection (a).
        (c)  Expenses.--Travel and other necessary and reasonable
     expenses incurred under subsections (a) and (b) may be assessed
     against the parties according to the laws of this Commonwealth.
        (d)  Preservation of records.--A court of this Commonwealth
     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.