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750 ILCS 36/112

(750 ILCS 36/112)

Sec. 112.

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).

(c) Travel and other necessary and reasonable expenses incurred under
subsections (a) and (b) may be assessed against the parties according to the
law 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 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.

(Source: P.A. 93-108, eff. 1-1-04.)