252K.313 - COSTS AND FEES.
252K.313 COSTS AND FEES.
1. The movant shall not be required to pay a filing fee or other
costs.
2. 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 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.
3. The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable
attorney's fees if the tribunal determines that a hearing was
requested primarily for delay. In a proceeding under article 6, a
hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a
registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change. Section History: Recent Form
97 Acts, ch 175, §146