780.170 Fees and costs.
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780.170 Fees and costs.
Sec. 20.
An initiating court shall not require payment of either a filing fee or other costs from the obligee but may request the responding court to collect fees and costs from the obligor. A responding court shall not require payment of a filing fee or other costs from the obligee, but it may direct that all fees and costs requested by the initiating court and incurred in this state when acting as a responding state, including fees for filing of pleadings, service of process, seizure of property, stenographic or duplication service, or other service supplied to the obligor, be paid in whole or in part by the obligor or by the county.
These costs or fees do not have priority over amounts due to the obligee.
History: 1952, Act 8, Eff. Sept. 18, 1952 ;-- Am. 1953, Act 202, Eff. Oct. 2, 1953 ;-- Am. 1957, Act 147, Eff. Sept. 27, 1957 ;-- Am. 1985, Act 172, Eff. Mar. 1, 1986