CIVIL FEES

ADVANCE DEPOSIT FEE SCHEDULE
SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
IBERIA PARISH

CIVIL FEE SCHEDULE

JUNE 17, 2010

ADVANCE DEPOSITS

FOR OPENING THE FOLLOWING CIVIL MATTERS:

Clerk’s Docket under $5,000.00	200.00
Adoption	300.00
Damages	300.00
Divorce w/citation only	300.00
Divorce w/rule	350.00
Executory Process	300.00
Make Judgment Executory	300.00
Open Account	300.00
Promissory Note	300.00
Restricted Driver’s License	300.00
Partition	300.00
Sequestration	300.00
Suit on Open Account	300.00
Worker’s Compensation	300.00

Each additional defendant	100.00
Service on Sec. Of State - additional	25.00

Change of Name	200.00
Emancipation	200.00
Mandamus	200.00
Succession/Probate
Small (under $75,000.00)	125.00
Large (over $75,000.00)	250.00

FOR FILING AND SERVING THE FOLLOWING:

Amending or Supplemental Petition	250.00
Cross-claim	250.00
Deficiency Judgment	250.00
Exception Set for Hearing	250.00
Garnishments	300.00
Intervention	250.00
Judgment Debtor Rule	175.00
Motion for New Trial	250.00
Motion for Summary Judgment	250.00
Reconventional Demand	250.00
Reconventional Demand w/rule	300.00
Rules for Custody, Child Support, Contempt, etc.	300.00
Third Party Petition	250.00
Each additional service	100.00

(Note: this includes sheriff fees)

FOR FILING AND NOTICE OF THE FOLLOWING:

Answers	per page
Answers with Jury Order	100.00
Answer and Exceptions	per page
Default Judgments	per page
Joint Custody Plan With Order	per page
Letters Rogatory	per page

Motion for Preliminary Default	per page
Motion to Appoint Curator	per page
Motion to Appoint Private Process Perver	per page
Motion to Continue (for two notices)	per page
Motion to Cont. & Reset w/ Service	per page
Motion to Enroll or Withdraw (for two notices)	per page
Motion to Set for Trial (for two notices)	per page
Motion for Status Conference (for two notices)	per page
Notice of Lis Pendens	per page
Objection to Hearing Officer Conference	per page
Rules for Custody, Child Support, etc.	250.00

Faxes (first page)	5.00
(all other pages)	2.00

AS PER R.S. 13.841 (EFFECTIVE AUGUST 15, 2006)

Initialization:

Faxes (first page)	5.00
(all other pages)	2.00

Initialization fee (each case)	20.00

Filing each document:
First page	6.00
Each subsequent page	4.00
Paper exhibits, attachments, transcipts and depositions (per page)	2.00
All other exhibits (per exhibit)	5.00
(Big Maps, etc.)

Indexing:

Each name in Civil, Probate & Adoption Indexes2.00

Issuing Documents:

With notice of service (any service requiring
notification of service)	20.00
Without notice of service (by mail)	15.00
(any service that does not require
(notification of service)

Copies:
Copy Cost (per page)	1.00
Certification of copy	5.00
Act of Congress	5.00

Minutes:
Extract of minute entry (each)	15.00

Swearing:
Witness (each)	2.00
Jury empaneled (each juror)	2.00

Appeals:
Complete preparation of all copies and volumes
(per original document page)
Exhibits	5.00

Recordings:
Filing all judgments that are also recorded in
the Mortgages or Conveyance Records
(includes indexing up to 4 names)
First page	31.00
Each additional page	12.00
For indexing each name after the 4th name	5.00



Cancellations:
Authorization to cancel judgment	30.00
Authorization to cancel judgment w/
Satisfaction of judgment	61.00
Subpoenas:
Regular Subpoena	100.00

NOTE:

Your attention is called to that portion of R.S. 13.842 which

reads in part: “Whenever the costs have exhausted the amount

of the original advance deposit, the clerk may refuse to perform

any further function in the proceeding until the additional costs

for the function have been paid.”

NEW SUIT CHARGES:

$2.00	Law Library
$15.00	Judicial Expense Fund
$21.50	Judges Supplemental
$14.25	Iberia Parish Council
$0.75	Adm fee Iberia Parish Council
$20.00	Initialization Fee
$1.50	Jamis Fee
$4.00	Indexing


$79.00	Total

SMALL CLAIMS NEW SUITS CHARGES: