Cherokee County Superior Court, Georgia Filing Fees and Waivers

CRITICALCivil cases

The Clerk must collect the ADR fee in any civil matter docketed in the specified courts and assigned a case number, whether contested or uncontested.

4. The Clerk of the Superior, State, Probate and Magistrate Coutts shall collect such fee in any civi1 matter docketed upon the official dockets of the enumerated courts and to which a case number is assigned, whether such matter is contested or not.

CRITICALCivil cases

Fee

10

Applies to

Civil action filing

A $10.00 ADR fee, in addition to other legal costs, must be collected by the Clerk for each civil action or case filed in the specified Cherokee County courts.

2. The fee for providing Court-connected ADR programs in civil cases shall be $10.00, in addition to all other legal costs. 3. The sum of $10.00 shall be charged and collected in each civil action or case filed in the Superior, State, Probate and Magistrate Courts of Cherokee County by the Clerk of said courts.

WARNINGCivil cases

Funds collected under the prior order through February 29, 2024, must be remitted to the Ninth Judicial Administrative District, while funds collected on or after March 1, 2024, must be remitted to the Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit ADR Program.

1. Any funds collected by the Clerk of the Superior, State, Probate and Magistrate Courts of Cherokee County on or before February 29, 2024, pursuant to that Order dated July 22, 2014, and filed in Superior Court Minute Book 198, Page 546, shall be remitted to the Office of Dispute Resolution for the Ninth Judicial Administrative District. On or after March 1, 2024, all such funds collected shall be remitted to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Board of Trustees for the Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit ADR Program, as set forth herein.

WARNINGCivil cases

Beginning with funds collected on or after March 1, 2024, the Clerk must remit the collected fees monthly to the specified program treasurer by the tenth day of the following month.

4. Beginning with fund collected on or after March 1, 2024, the Clerk ofthe Superior, State, Probate and Magistrate Courts shall remit monthly, on or before the tenth day of the following month, the fees so collected to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Board of Trustees for the Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit ADR Program.