Washington County Circuit Court, Wisconsin Filing Fees and Waivers

CRITICAL

Applies to

Motion to modify judgment or subsequent court order

A filing fee must be paid when filing a motion to modify a judgment or subsequent order, except for motions to enforce judgments.

A mandatory filing fee is required to be paid at the time of filing any motion to modify judgment or subsequent court order. This requirement does not apply to motions to enforce judgments, i.e. contempt or placement enforcement actions.

CRITICAL

Fee

$5

Applies to

Satisfaction application

A statutory fee of $5.00 is required for each judgment to be satisfied.

Upon receipt of the documents required, and the statutory fee of $5.00 for each judgment to be satisfied, the clerk shall submit the proposed Order to the Court for signature after which the clerk shall satisfy each judgment described in the Application.

CRITICAL

Failure to pay the jury fee when ordered waives the jury trial unless the Judge excuses the failure.

(2) Failure to pay the fee at the time ordered by the Court shall constitute a waiver of jury trial unless excused by the Judge.

CRITICAL

Applies to

Fee waiver request

An indigency-based request to waive fees or deposits must use approved forms and include any required financial information.

Any request for the waiver of fees or deposits on the basis of indigency must be made on approved forms and accompanied by any required financial information.

WARNING

The jury fee may not be split between parties without Court authorization, and duplicate jury-fee tenders will not be returned.

(4) Unless authorized by the Court, no jury fee may be split between the parties, and duplicate tenders for juries will not be returned to any party.