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Online Filing
You may file your case online at the following sites:
Methods of Payment
- Visa
- MasterCard
- Money order
- Cashier’s checks
- Business checks (no personal checks)
Criminal Services / Bad Checks
Bad checks cost merchants hundreds of thousands of dollars. There are both civil and criminal remedies available to a person or business that has received a bad check.
Filing Fee: $20 (Criminal Remedy)
Civil Services / Statement of Claim
Civil Claims Under $15,000
- Money owed
- Breach of Contract
- Suit on Account
- Civil Wrong
Fees
- Filing Fee: $96 for one defendant.
- Additional $50 for each additional defendant
Dispossessory / Eviction
- Landlord / Tenant action.
- No monetary Jurisdiction.
- Writ to obtain legal possession of the rented property.
Fees
- Filing Fee: $96 for one defendant.
- Additional $50 for each additional defendant.
- Final Writ of Possession Fee: $25
Foreclosure Personal / Rental
- Written security interests required.
- Writ to pick up personal property/rental property.
Fees:
- Filing Fee: $96 for one defendant.
- Additional $50 for each additional defendant.
- Final Writ of Possession Fee: $50
Abandoned Motor Vehicle
- Car or trailer that is either left at a garage for thirty days after the vehicle was supposed to be picked up or left unattended on a public road for 5 days.
- Filing Fee: $45.50 one defendant
- Additional $8 for each additional defendant
Abandoned Mobile Homes
- Filing Fee $45.50
- Additional $8 for each additional defendant
Garnishment
- Form of collection on a money judgment.
- Garnishes defendant wages or bank/savings account.
- Filing Fee: $96
Writ of Fieri Facias (Fi Fa)
- Form of collection on money judgment.
- Puts a lien on any property defendant owns.
- Good for 7 years.
- Filing Fees:
- Filing Fee $4 for Magistrate Court
Filing Fee $25 for Superior Court - This includes New, Cancellation & Alias FIFA request
- Filing Fee $4 for Magistrate Court
Pre-Warrants, Good Behavior
Filing Fee: $20
Post-Judgment Interrogatories
To ascertain what assets, if any, the judgment debtor owns to satisfy a judgment debt.
Costs vary according to the time of filing.
Fees
- $64 Personal Service (Sheriff Service)