2025 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 753 - Circuit courts.
753.19 - Operating costs; circuit court.

753.19 Operating costs; circuit court. The cost of operation of the circuit court for each county, except for the salaries of judges and court reporters provided to be paid by the state, and except for the cost assumed by the state under this chapter and chs. 40 and 230, and except as otherwise provided, shall be paid by the county.

History: 1973 c. 81; 1975 c. 126, 199; 1977 c. 187 ss. 92, 135; 1977 c. 449; Stats. 1977 s. 753.19; 1981 c. 96.

The county in which proceedings are brought must pay the fee of an appointed guardian ad litem. Romasko v. City of Milwaukee, 108 Wis. 2d 32, 321 N.W.2d 123 (1982).

Services of appointed counsel for non-indigent individuals in civil commitment hearings should be paid for by the county. State ex rel. Chiarkas v. Skow, 160 Wis. 2d 123, 465 N.W.2d 625 (1991).

The state public defender, not the county, was obligated to pay the costs of necessary expert witnesses hired by an appointed private attorney without prior approval as required by rule. Brown County v. State Public Defender, 167 Wis. 2d 168, 482 N.W.2d 665 (Ct. App. 1992).