Fee Exemptions
Cowlitz County Clerk's Office
Fee Exemptions
Effective 7/24/2015
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Category | Description | RCW |
Abstracts |
| AGO 61-62 No.136 |
| 36.18.020(4) | |
Adoption |
| 26.33.030(2) |
| 26.33.190(5) | |
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Aliens, Commitment of | No charge to U.S. Immigration office for copies | 10.70.150 |
Anit-Harassment | No charge for forms and brochures | 10.14.040(4) |
Appeals to Supreme Court or Court of Appeals | By state or municipality | 2.32.070 |
By indigent party | 4.88.330 | |
Appeals, Criminal RALJ | No initial filing fee - See Criminal | 36.18.020(2)(b) |
Appeals, Explanatory Statements | No costs to either party | 29A.32.040 |
Attorney General | Exempt from filing fees relating to paternity or support | 74.20.300 |
Ballot Title | No filing fee | 29A.72.080 |
Child Support / Spousal Maintenance Petitions | No filing fee if filed by State of Washington | 26.18.040(2) |
Condemnation (Eminent Domain) | No fee for school districts, exept on appeal | 8.16.150 |
Criminal | No fee for filing - costs assessed upon conviction or plea of guilty, upon failure to prosecute RALJ appeal or affirmance of lower court conviction | 36.18.020(2)(h) |
Dependency | No filing fee | 13.34.040 |
Disclaimer | Upon deposit of money/property (required) - No costs to determine conflicting claims of property (costs may be assessed by court) | 4.08.170 |
Domestic Violence | No charge for forms, brochures or obtaining Protection Orders | 26.50.030(4) 36.18.020(3) |
Domestic Violence | No charge for filing or service of process; No charge for certified copies to petitioners | 26.50.040 |
DSHS | See Social and Health Services, Department of | |
Emancipations | No charge for one certified copy of Decree to Petitioner. | 13.64.050(3) |
Eminent Domain | See Condemnation | |
Employment Security | (Judicial Review on Unemployment Compensation) | |
| 50.32.110 | |
| 50.32.190 | |
Explanatory Statement Appeals | No costs to either party | 29.81.230 |
Forms and Brochures | No fee for forms and brochures under the Domestic Violence Act | 36.18.020 (3) 26.50.030 (4) |
Guardianship or Limited Guardianship |
| 11.88.030(3) |
| 11.88.030(2)(b) | |
Guardianship to Estate | Cause Code migration/ no additional fee is charged to transfer the guardianship file to a probate proceeding when migration is ordered | 11.88.150(2) |
Immigration, US | See Aliens, Commitment of | 10.70.150 |
Irrigation District | No fee for Oath of Commissioner/Board Member of Joint Irrigation District | 87.80.100 |
In Forma Pauperis | Waiver of filing fee due to financial hardship | 36.18.022 |
Insurance Commissioner | Exempt from filing fees | 48.31.230 |
Juvenile Offender | No fee for filing or service | 13.04.160 |
Juvenile Dependency |
| 13.34.040 |
| 36.18.020(2)(a) | |
Labor & Industries | No filing fee to file complaint to prosecute for collection of wage assignments | 49.48.040(2) |
Mental Illness Jury | No jury fee | MPR 3.3 |
Property | Filing to determine conflicting claims of, see Disclaimer | |
Prosecutor | Exempt from filing fees related to paternity or support | 74.20.300 |
Prosecutor (State of WA) | No fees for copies of criminal pleadings | 9.94A.110 |
Public Assistance | See Social & Health Services, Department of (Judicial Review) | |
Reciprocal (URESA) | See UIFSA | |
Relinquishment of a Child | No filing fee to a department, agency or prospective adoptive parent under RCW 26.33.080 | 36.18.020(3) |
Service Personnel | No fees for copies to service personnel of US armed forces (for determining entitlements to family allowances and other benefits) | 73.04.120 |
Sex Offender Registration | No Fees for Copies to Law Enforcement Agencies | 36.18.016 SBH 2223 |
Social & Health Services |
| 74.08.080(3)(a) |
| 74.20.300 | |
Support Enforcement | (DSHS) Exempt from filing and copy fees relating to paternity or support (also see UIFSA) | 74.20.300 |
UIFSA | (Uniform Interstate Family Support Act) | 26.21.325 |
No filing fee - fees may be assessed | ||
Unemployment Compensation | See Employment Security | |
URESA | See UIFSA | |
Veterans | (Marital Status) No fees for copies for family or legal representative of deceased for VA or other governmental agencies when required in connection with any claim pending before Veterans' Bureau or governmental agency administering benefits to war veterans | 73.04.120 |
Veterans | (Pension, Bounty, Back Pay) No fee for administering oaths, preparing official certificate or perfecting a voucher to procure a pension, bounty or back pay for Honorably Discharged, or spouse, orphan or legal representative | 73.04.010 |
Vulnerable Adult | No filing fee | 74.34.110(9) |
Wage Claim Assignments | Court costs by L & I for Prosecution | 49.48.040(2) |