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 Oklahoma Statutes (Last Updated: September 18, 2014)
 Title 43. MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

  § 43-551-112. Cooperation between courts; preservation of records.  

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  • COOPERATION BETWEEN COURTS; PRESERVATION OF RECORDS

    A.  A court of this state 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 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

    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.  Upon request of a court of another state, a court of this state may hold a hearing or enter an order described in subsection A of this section.

    C.  Travel and other necessary and reasonable expenses incurred under subsections A and B of this section may be assessed against the parties according to the laws of this state.

    D.  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 (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.

Added by Laws 1998, c. 407, § 12, eff. Nov. 1, 1998.