2020 Indiana Code
Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law
Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
Chapter 3. Civil Provisions of General Application
31-18.5-3-13. Costs, Fees, and Expenses

Universal Citation:
IN Code § 31-18.5-3-13 (2020)
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Sec. 13. (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.

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

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