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Florida Overcharges to file court cases

By Glen Ashman

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Attorneys Predict Hardship From Hikes in Fla. Court Fees
Daily Business Review

"Justice is going to be very expensive." That is how David Mankin, supervising attorney in the housing unit of Broward Legal Services in Plantation, Fla., describes the impact -- particularly on the poor -- of legislatively mandated increases in 144 court fees taking effect statewide today. Even the fee to apply for indigent status, which lets poor litigants pay other court costs in installments rather than all at once, goes up by 20 percent from $40 to $50... Ross Baer, the supervising family law attorney at the Palm Beach County Legal Aid Society, said he is bothered by the increase in the cost of filing for divorce and a new fee to file a counterpetition. Divorce petitions cost $409, up 12 percent from $364, and the new fee for a counterpetition in a divorce case is $295...The largest increase in terms of dollars and percentage is for tenant eviction. The old fee of $80 has more than tripled to $270.

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For comparison, the $704 it takes to file a Florida divorce and counterclaim, is about $80 to $85 in my state of Georgia.

Full post as published by It's (Barely) Legal on July 03, 2008 (boomark / email).