2006 Minnesota Statutes

518C.313 COSTS AND FEES.
(a) The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs.
(b) If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal may assess against an obligor filing fees,
reasonable attorney's 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's 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.
(c) The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable attorney's fees if it
determines that a hearing was requested primarily for delay. In a proceeding under sections
518C.601 to 518C.612, a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a
registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change.
History: 1994 c 630 art 3 s 13