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LAFOURCHE PARISH CLERK OF COURT
CIVIL FEES


Effective - January 1, 2007
Civil Department: 985-447-5550

ADVANCE DEPOSIT SCHEDULE

If the costs exceed the advance deposit, you will be billed accordingly. Any unused portions of the advance deposit will be refunded.

NEW FILINGS ADVANCE DEPOSIT

CIVIL

Change of Name 200.00
Compromise Settlement 200.00
Mandamus 200.00
Clerk’s Docket 150.00
Divorce (Without Rule) 200.00
Divorce (With Rule) 250.00
Worker’s Compensation 200.00
Damages 200.00
Executory Process 225.00
Uncontested Suits 200.00
Deficiency Judgments 200.00
All Other New Suits 200.00
   
Suit with TRO or Rule 250.00
Suit with TRO and Rule 300.00
   
The price collected for these new filings include the service of one defendant.
   
Each additional service 75.00
Secretary of State (fee) 25.00
   
Suit without service 175.00
   
   

PROBATE

Succession 200.00
Tutorship 200.00
Emancipation 200.00
Minor’s Settlement 200.00
Interdiction 200.00

ADOPTION 350.00
Add $75.00 per additional child  

FILINGS IN EXISTING MATTERS ADVANCE DEPOSIT

Motion for Appeal 175.00
Motion for Trial 100.00
Motion for a new trial 175.00
Rule 175.00
Garnishment and Writ of Fifa 200.00
Writ of Fifa 175.00
Reconventional Demand, Cross Claim, and
Third Party Demand
200.00
Intervention 200.00
Jury Order 175.00
Jury Filing Fees 150.00
Discovery Pleadings (Service-One Defendant) 175.00
Subpoena   75.00
(Please call for witness fee)
Subpoena Duces Tecum   75.00
Subpoena & Subpoena Decus Tecum (together) 150.00
Publication (per page)   75.00
Judgment Debtor Rule (one service) 175.00
   
The price collected for filings include the service of one defendant.
   
Each additional service 75.00
Without service 100.00
   

COURT COST EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2007
IN ACCORDANCE WITH R.S. 13:841
ACT 243 OF 2006 OF THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE

1) INITIALIZATION FEE 20.00


2) FILING DOCUMENT  
(a) First Page 4.00
(b) Each Subsequent Page 2.00
(c) Paper exhibits, Attachments, Transcripts and
Depositions (per page)
2.00
(d) All Other Exhibits 5.00

 

3) INDEXING EACH NAME 2.00


4) ISSUING DOCUMENT WITH NOTICE 20.00
(Includes Original for Service, Includes File Copy,
Includes Image/Microfilm Document, Includes
Copy for Return w/Certification, Includes Notice of
Service) (This would be any document issued in
which you issue a Notice of Service.)
 


5) ISSUING DOCUMENT WITHOUT NOTICE 15.00
(Includes Original for Service, Includes Copy for
File, Includes Seal of Document, Includes Image/
Microfilm of Document, Notice of Assignment,
Notice of Judgment, Jury Subpoena, Extract of
Court Minutes, (Any document that you do not issue
Notice of Service)
 

6) COPIES

Certification of Copy 5.00
Act of Congress 5.00
Conformed Copies 2.00
Copies per page 1.00


7) MINUTE ENTRIES 5.00


8) SWEAR WITNESSES & JURORS 2.00


9) POSTAGE

Certified Mail with Return Receipt Actual Cost
   


10) APPEALS

Per Original Document Page 2.50
File Transcript (Per Page) 2.00

 


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