2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS
Chapter 73 - Civil Provisions of General Application
7313 - Costs and fees.

     § 7313.  Costs and fees.
        (a)  Petitioner.--The petitioner may not be required to pay a
     filing fee or other costs.
        (b)  Obligor.--If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal
     may assess against an obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney
     fees, other costs and necessary travel and other reasonable
     expenses incurred by the obligee and the obligee's witnesses.
     The tribunal may not assess fees, costs or expenses against the
     obligee or the support enforcement agency of either the
     initiating state or the responding state except as provided by
     other law. Attorney 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.
        (c)  Dilatory actions.--The tribunal shall order the payment
     of costs and reasonable attorney fees if it determines that a
     hearing was requested primarily for delay. In a proceeding under
     Chapter 76 (relating to enforcement and modification of support
     order after registration), a hearing is presumed to have been
     requested primarily for delay if a registered support order is
     confirmed or enforced without change.