2017 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 28 FEES AND SALARIES
Article 1 FEES IN ALL COUNTIES AND SALARIES IN CERTAIN COUNTIES
28-179 Post-decree motion docket fee; authorized only by legislative enactment.

28-179. Post-decree motion docket fee; authorized only by legislative enactment. (a) No post-decree motion petitioning for a modification or termination of separate maintenance, for a change in legal custody, residency, visitation rights or parenting time or for a modification of child support shall be filed or docketed in the district court without payment of a docket fee in the amount of $40 on and after July 1, 2013, to the clerk of the district court.

(b) A poverty affidavit may be filed in lieu of a docket fee as established in K.S.A. 60-2001, and amendments thereto.

(c) The docket fee shall be the only costs assessed in each case for services of the clerk of the district court and the sheriff. The docket fee shall be disbursed in accordance with K.S.A. 20-362, and amendments thereto.

(d) Except as provided further, the docket fee established in this section shall be the only fee collected or moneys in the nature of a fee collected for the docket fee. Such fee shall only be established by an act of the legislature and no other authority is established by law or otherwise to collect a fee. On and after July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2019, the supreme court may impose an additional charge, not to exceed $22 per docket fee, to fund the costs of non-judicial personnel.

History: L. 1996, ch. 234, § 2; L. 2000, ch. 171, § 22; L. 2003, ch. 101, § 11; L. 2004, ch. 95, § 4; L. 2006, ch. 195, § 16; L. 2007, ch. 162, § 3; L. 2008, ch. 95, § 12; L. 2009, ch. 116, § 22; L. 2009, ch. 143, § 19; L. 2010, ch. 62, § 14; L. 2011, ch. 87, § 14; L. 2012, ch. 66, § 10; L. 2013, ch. 125, § 10; L. 2014, ch. 82, § 31; L. 2015, ch. 81, § 16; L. 2017, ch. 80, § 12; July 1.

Revisor's Note:

Section was amended twice in the 2006 session, see also 60-1621a.

Section was also amended by L. 2009, ch. 82, § 5, but that version was repealed by L. 2009, ch. 143, § 37.

L. 2014, ch. 82, was held to be an invalid enactment, see Solomon v. State, 303 K. 512, 364 P.3d 536 (2015).