TITLE 8: FAMILY LAW AND PROBATE
DIVISION 1: DOMESTIC RELATIONS
§ 1622. Preservation of Documents for Use in Other States. In any custody proceeding in the Commonwealth, the Commonwealth Trial Court shall preserve the pleadings, orders and decrees, any record that has been made of its hearings, social studies, and other pertinent documents until the child reaches 18 years of age. Upon appropriate request of a court of another state the court shall forward to the other court certified copies of any or all of its documents. Source: PL 3-50, § 22. Commission Comment: Section 4 of PL 6-25, the “Commonwealth Judicial Reorganization Act of 1989,” provides that “[w]herever the term ‘Commonwealth Trial Court’ appears in the Commonwealth Code, it is henceforth to be interpreted and understood to refer to the Commonwealth Superior Court.”