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Full Text of HB2954  94th General Assembly

HB2954 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY


 


 
94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB2954

 

Introduced 2/22/2005, by Rep. Tom Cross

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
750 ILCS 36/112

    Amends the Uniform Child-Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning cooperation between courts and preservation of records.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Uniform Child-Custody Jurisdiction and
5 Enforcement Act is amended by changing Section 112 as follows:
 
6     (750 ILCS 36/112)
7     Sec. 112. Cooperation Between Courts; Preservation Of
8 Records.
9     (a) A court of this State may request the the appropriate
10 court of another state to:
11         (1) hold an evidentiary hearing;
12         (2) order a person to produce or give evidence pursuant
13     to procedures of that state;
14         (3) order that an evaluation be made with respect to
15     the custody of a child involved in a pending proceeding;
16         (4) forward to the court of this State a certified copy
17     of the transcript of the record of the hearing, the
18     evidence otherwise presented, and any evaluation prepared
19     in compliance with the request; and
20         (5) order a party to a child-custody proceeding or any
21     person having physical custody of the child to appear in
22     the proceeding with or without the child.
23     (b) Upon request of a court of another state, a court of
24 this State may hold a hearing or enter an order described in
25 subsection (a).
26     (c) Travel and other necessary and reasonable expenses
27 incurred under subsections (a) and (b) may be assessed against
28 the parties according to the law of this State.
29     (d) A court of this State shall preserve the pleadings,
30 orders, decrees, records of hearings, evaluations, and other
31 pertinent records with respect to a child-custody proceeding
32 until the child attains 18 years of age. Upon appropriate

 

 

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1 request by a court or law enforcement official of another
2 state, the court shall forward a certified copy of those
3 records.
4 (Source: P.A. 93-108, eff. 1-1-04.)