§ 31-18.5-3-13 — Costs, fees, and expenses

Indiana § 31-18.5-3-13

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Art. 18.5: FAMILY LAW: UNIFORM INTERSTATE
• Ch. 3: Civil Provisions of General Application

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(a) The petitioner may not be required to
pay a filing fee or other costs.
(b) If an obligee prevails, a responding Indiana tribunal may assess
against an obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney's fees, other costs,
and necessary travel and other reasonable expenses incurred by the
obligee and the obligee's witnesses.
(c) The tribunal may not assess:
(1) fees;
(2) costs; or
(3) expenses;
against the obligee or the support enforcement agency of either the
initiating or responding state or foreign country, except as provided by
other law.
(d) Attorney's fees may be taxed as costs, and may be ordered paid
directly to the attorney, who may enforce the order in the attorney's
own name. Payment of support owed to the obligee has priority over
fees, costs, and expenses.
(e) The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable
attorney's fees if it determines that a hearing was requested primarily
for delay. In a proceeding under IC 31-18.5-6, a hearing is presumed
to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered support order
is confirmed or enforced without change.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.