Request for another court to hold hearing
A Missouri court can ask a court in another state to help with a child custody case. The other court can gather evidence, take statements from people, or do a study about the child's situation, then send that information back to Missouri. A Missouri court can also ask the other state's court to order a person involved in the custody case to come to Missouri for the hearing, and if that person has the child, to bring the child too. The costs for all of this can be charged to one of the people involved in the case.
452.825. Request for another court to hold . — 1. A court of this state may request the court of another state to hold a hearing to obtain evidence, to persons within that state to produce or give evidence under other procedures of that state, or to have made with respect to the of a child involved in proceedings pending in the court of this state; and to forward to the court of this state of the of the of the hearing, the evidence otherwise obtained, or any social studies prepared in with the request. The cost of the services may be assessed against the parties.
2. A court of this state may request the appropriate court of another state to order a to pending in the court of this state to appear in the proceedings and, if that party has of the child, to appear with the child. The request may state that travel and other necessary expenses of the party and of the child whose appearance is desired will be assessed against the appropriate party.
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Source & history notes
(L. 2009 H.B. 481)
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