RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 232 (SB 145) 2020 Regular Session Robert Mills
Prior law required the clerk of court of the 26th Judicial District Court for the parish of
Webster to, in addition to the filing fees authorized by law, collect from any person filing any
type of suit or proceeding, intervention, or third party demand, the following amounts:
(1)In each suit in which the demand is for $5,000 or more, the fee shall be $15.
(2)In each suit for divorce, partition, injunction, separation of property, child custody,
receivership proceedings, concursus proceedings, money demands of $1,000 or more
and less than $5,000, and money demands irrespective of amount involved when
accompanied by a conservatory writ, the fee shall be $10.
(3)Money demands of more than $500 and less than $1,000, probate proceedings,
adoptions, tutorships and interdictions, the fee shall be $5 for each suit.
(4)Money demands of $500 or less, and in all other cases not enumerated herein, the fee
shall be $3.
New law repeals prior law and changes the fee structure to require the clerk of court of the
26th Judicial District Court for the parish of Webster to collect from every person filing any
type of civil suit or proceeding, who is not otherwise exempted by law from the payment of
court costs or subject to the provisions of La. C.C.P. Article 5181 et seq., a fee to be
determined by the judges of the district, sitting en banc, which shall not exceed $15.
Prior law provided that the amount to be collected by the clerk of the district court for the
26th Judicial District for the parish of Webster in addition to the filing fees authorized by law
may be increased or decreased by the senior judge upon the approval of the Webster Parish
Police Jury and the Webster Parish Bar Association. New law repeals prior law.
Prior law provided that in civil appeals cases, the $2.50 per page transcription charge applies
for transcriptions in excess of 350 pages. New law repeals prior law.
New law provides that the imposition of court costs or fees as provided by new law become
effective on the date of Judicial Council approval and that no fee amounts provided in new
law will be collected without Judicial Council approval.
Effective August 1, 2020.
(Amends R.S. 13:970(K) and (L))