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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 09-730

THE COURTS

Title 255--LOCAL
COURT RULES

BEAVER COUNTY

Domestic Relations Filing and Service Fee Schedule; Domestic Relations Section; No. 10921; Misc. 2009

[39 Pa.B. 2084]
[Saturday, April 25, 2009]

Administrative Order

   Pursuant to the authority granted at 23 Pa.C.S.A. § 4351(a) and Rule 239 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure (hereinafter Pa.R.C.P.), fees, as hereinafter identified, shall be imposed upon the following classes of cases and enforcement and collection by the Domestic Relations Section of this Court:

A.  Child Support Alone and/or Child Support Together With Spousal Support, Alimony Pendente Lite or Alimony (Title IV-D Collection)
1.  As required by Rule 1910.4 of Pa.R.C.P., an action for support shall commence by filing a Complaint with the Domestic Relations Section, and no filing fee shall be required in advance from the plaintiff/obligee.
2.  If, following a Domestic Relations office conference or a de novo hearing before the Court the plaintiff/obligee prevails, the defendant/obligor shall be assessed a filing fee in the amount of $20.00 and a monthly service charge to service the case in the amount of $3.50 per month for each month there is any amount due and owing under the Order.
3.  The filing fee provided in Paragraph 2 above shall be assessed and collected by the Domestic Relations Section in all cases in which a new complaint is filed or a Petition for Modification is filed after the effective date of this Order.
4.  The service fees provided in Paragraph 2 above shall be assessed and collected in all cases hereunder after the effective date of this Order.
B.  Spousal Support Without a Child Support Obligation, Alimony Pendente Lite and Alimony (Non Title IV-D Collection)
1.  Because spousal support is not a Title IV-D case and because payment of Alimony Pendente Lite and Alimony are controlled by separate Order of the Court in compliance with the Divorce Code, if said Orders are to be enforced by the Domestic Relations Section of this Court, through PACSES, each case will be assessed an annual filing/service fee of $120.00. Said fee must be paid by the obligee.
2.  The annual filing/service fee shall be payable upon filing the Spousal Support Order or Alimony Court Order with the Domestic Relations Section and on June 1st of each year thereafter as long as the Domestic Relations Section is requested to service the collection.

   This Order shall be effective on May 15, 2009, or thirty (30) days after publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin and publication on the Pennsylvania Judiciary's Web Application Portal, whichever shall occur later.

   In accordance with Pa.R.C.P. No. 239, the Court Administrator of Beaver County shall file or distribute copies of this Administrative Order as follows:

   1.  Seven (7) certified copies shall be filed with the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts;

   2.  Two (2) certified copies and a computer diskette containing the text of the Administrative Order shall be distributed to the Legislative Reference Bureau for publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.

   3.  One (1) certified copy shall be filed with the Domestic Relations Procedural Rules Committee of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania;

   4.  One (1) copy shall be kept continuously available for public inspection and copying in the Office of the Prothonotary of Beaver County. Upon request and payment of reasonable costs of reproduction and mailing, the Prothonotary shall furnish to any person a copy of the Administrative Order;

   5.  One (1) copy shall be kept in the Law Library of Beaver County.

   In addition, the Court Administrator of Beaver County shall cause the foregoing Administrative Order to be published on the web site of the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts at http://www.courts.state.pa.us/judicial-council/local-rules/index.htm and on the Beaver County web site.

By the Court

HONORABLE JOHN D. MCBRIDE,   
President Judge

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 09-730. Filed for public inspection April 24, 2009, 9:00 a.m.]


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