10.1  The General Assembly, a synod, or a presbytery may cooperate with the General Assembly, a synod, a presbytery or a comparable judicatory of another ecclesiastical body or bodies, and a presbytery may authorize one or more of its constituent churches or agencies to cooperate with a church, churches, or agencies of another ecclesiastical body or bodies in undertaking and conducting a program. This may be done through informal arrangement or through formal structure, including incorporation.
     10.2  When a particular church of another ecclesiastical body, whose constitution contains provisions similar to these, requests that it be received by a presbytery of this church, the presbytery shall not receive the particular church from the other ecclesiastical body unless:

a.		That particular church has been regularly dismissed by the presbytery or comparable judicatory of jurisdiction and any timely complaint to such action of dismissal has been finally determined; and
b.		Both the receiving and dismissing presbytery have sought the advice of the appropriate agency of the highest judicatory of their church dealing with relations between ecclesiastical bodies.

     When a particular church has been properly dismissed and received under the above provisions, no financial consideration shall be required of the receiving presbytery except that if the property is encumbered by mortgage, or other encumbrance, the receiving presbytery shall assume and agree to pay all obligations of such encumbrance.
     10.3  When a particular church of another ecclesiastical body with dissimilar constitutional provisions to these, or an independent congregation, requests that it be received by a presbytery of this church, the presbytery shall not receive the particular church unless:

a.		That particular church has been regularly dismissed by a comparable judicatory, or is certified by congregational vote to be free to pursue a relationship with this church because it is self-determining, and there are no pending ecclesiastical or civil complaints against the congregation, and
b.		The presbytery has investigated to assure that the congregation comes on good faith and desires to embrace Cumberland Presbyterian doctrine, polity, and practice, and will undergo mentoring, clergy and lay, for a provisional period of not less than two years.

     During the provisional period, the congregation shall, under supervision of presbytery, operate as a Cumberland Presbyterian Church in all respects, and shall have official representation at presbytery. Members of the congregation will be eligible to serve on judicatory boards and as General Assembly Commissioners upon completion of the provisional period. If at any time during the provisional period either presbytery or the congregation is dissatisfied with the progress toward assimilation as a Cumberland Presbyterian Church, the relationship shall be dissolved thirty days after formal vote by the presbytery and/or congregation to that effect, with written notice of that intent to presbytery and the congregation.
     10.4  A presbytery may authorize one or more of its constituent churches to form a federated or union church with a church or churches of another ecclesiastical body or bodies or may organize a federated or union church acting in concert with a comparable judicatory of another ecclesiastical body or bodies. This shall be done by agreement in writing between the presbytery and the comparable judicatory of the other ecclesiastical body or bodies.
     10.5  A presbytery or synod of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America and a presbytery or synod of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, whose boundaries coincide or can be made to coincide, may form a union presbytery or synod which shall be related in the same way to both denominations.