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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)
Holiday Closings
- New Years Day
- MLK, Jr. Day
- Memorial Day
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
- Veteran's Day
- Thanksgiving Day and the day after
- Christmas Eve / Christmas Day
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 rented property.
Fees
- Filing Fee: $71 for one defendant.
- Additional $25 for each additional defendant.
- Final Writ of Possession Fee: $25
Foreclosure Personal / Rental
- Written security interest 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: $18.50 one defendant.
- Additional $6 for each additional defendant.
Mechanic's Lien
- Special lien on any vehicle required to have a certificate of title for work done, or for work done and materials furnished in repairing or servicing such vehicle.
- Filing Fee: $96
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 Fee: $4
Pre-Warrants, Good Behavior
Filing Fee: $20
Post-Judgment Interrogatories
To ascertain what assets, if any, the judgment debtor owns to satisfy judgment debt.
Costs vary according to time of filing.
Fees
- $66 Personal Service (Sheriff Service)
- $21.54 Certified Mail