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  "urn": "urn:us-la:rs:13:1812",
  "title_number": "13",
  "section_number": "1812",
  "citation": "R.S. 13:1812",
  "heading": "Cooperation between courts; preservation of records",
  "text": "A. A court of this state may request the appropriate court of another state to:\n\n(1) Hold an evidentiary hearing.\n\n(2) Order a person to produce or give evidence pursuant to procedures of that state.\n\n(3) Order that an evaluation be made with respect to the custody of a child involved in a pending proceeding.\n\n(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.\n\n(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.\n\nB. 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.\n\nC. 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 law of this state.\n\nD. 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 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.",
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      "level": "title",
      "number": "13",
      "name": "COURTS AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE"
    },
    {
      "level": "chapter",
      "number": "6",
      "name": "JUVENILE COURTS"
    },
    {
      "level": "part",
      "number": "IV",
      "name": "UNIFORM CHILD CUSTODY JURISDICTION AND ENFORCEMENT ACT"
    },
    {
      "level": "subpart",
      "number": "A",
      "name": "GENERAL PROVISIONS"
    }
  ],
  "breadcrumb": "Title 13 › Chapter 6 › Part IV › Subpart A",
  "acts_citations": [
    {
      "act_year": 2006,
      "act_number": 822,
      "section": 1,
      "effective_date": "2007-08-15",
      "effective_date_raw": "Aug. 15, 2007",
      "role": "enactment"
    }
  ],
  "acts_citations_raw": "Acts 2006, No. 822, §1, eff. Aug. 15, 2007.",
  "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=408567",
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