(a) The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs.
(b) If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal of this state 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 or foreign country, 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.616, a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change.
1994 c 630 art 3 s 13; 2014 c 189 s 26,73; 2015 c 71 art 1 s 119
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapters 517 - 519A — Domestic Relations
Chapter 518C — Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
Section 518C.101 — Definitions.
Section 518C.102 — State Tribunal And Support Enforcement Agency.
Section 518C.103 — Remedies Cumulative.
Section 518C.201 — Bases For Jurisdiction Over Nonresident.
Section 518C.202 — Duration Of Personal Jurisdiction.
Section 518C.203 — Initiating And Responding Tribunal Of This State.
Section 518C.204 — Simultaneous Proceedings In Another State Or Foreign Country.
Section 518C.205 — Continuing, Exclusive Jurisdiction To Modify Child Support Order.
Section 518C.206 — Continuing Jurisdiction To Enforce Child Support Order.
Section 518C.207 — Determination Of Controlling Child Support Order.
Section 518C.208 — Child Support Orders For Two Or More Obligees.
Section 518C.209 — Credit For Payments.
Section 518C.210 — Application To Nonresident Subject To Personal Jurisdiction.
Section 518C.211 — Continuing, Exclusive Jurisdiction To Modify Spousal Support Order.
Section 518C.301 — Proceedings Under This Chapter.
Section 518C.302 — Action By Minor Parent.
Section 518C.303 — Application Of Law Of This State.
Section 518C.304 — Duties Of Initiating Tribunal.
Section 518C.305 — Duties And Powers Of Responding Tribunal.
Section 518C.306 — Inappropriate Tribunal.
Section 518C.307 — Duties Of Support Enforcement Agency.
Section 518C.308 — Duty Of Attorney General.
Section 518C.309 — Private Counsel.
Section 518C.310 — Duties Of State Information Agency.
Section 518C.311 — Pleadings And Accompanying Documents.
Section 518C.312 — Nondisclosure Of Information In Exceptional Circumstances.
Section 518C.313 — Costs And Fees.
Section 518C.314 — Limited Immunity Of Petitioner.
Section 518C.315 — Nonparentage As Defense.
Section 518C.316 — Special Rules Of Evidence And Procedure.
Section 518C.317 — Communications Between Tribunals.
Section 518C.318 — Assistance With Discovery.
Section 518C.319 — Receipt And Disbursement Of Payments.
Section 518C.401 — Establishment Of Support Order.
Section 518C.402 — Proceeding To Determine Parentage.
Section 518C.501 — Employer's Receipt Of Income-withholding Order Of Another State.
Section 518C.502 — Employer's Compliance With Income-withholding Order Of Another State.
Section 518C.503 — Employer's Compliance With Two Or More Income-withholding Orders.
Section 518C.504 — Immunity From Civil Liability.
Section 518C.505 — Penalties For Noncompliance.
Section 518C.506 — Contest By Obligor.
Section 518C.507 — Administrative Enforcement Of Orders.
Section 518C.601 — Registration Of Order For Enforcement.
Section 518C.602 — Procedure To Register Order For Enforcement.
Section 518C.603 — Effect Of Registration For Enforcement.
Section 518C.604 — Choice Of Law.
Section 518C.605 — Notice Of Registration Of Order.
Section 518C.606 — Procedure To Contest Validity Or Enforcement Of Registered Support Order.
Section 518C.607 — Contest Of Registration Or Enforcement.
Section 518C.608 — Confirmed Order.
Section 518C.609 — Procedure To Register Child Support Order Of Another State For Modification.
Section 518C.610 — Effect Of Registration For Modification.
Section 518C.611 — Modification Of Child Support Order Of Another State.
Section 518C.612 — Recognition Of Order Modified In Another State.
Section 518C.614 — Notice To Issuing Tribunal Of Modification.
Section 518C.615 — Jurisdiction To Modify Child Support Order Of Foreign Country.
Section 518C.616 — Procedure To Register Child Support Order Of Foreign Country For Modification.
Section 518C.701 — Definitions.
Section 518C.702 — Applicability.
Section 518C.703 — Relationship Of Department Of Human Services To United States Central Authority.
Section 518C.705 — Direct Request.
Section 518C.706 — Registration Of Convention Support Order.
Section 518C.707 — Contest Of Registered Convention Support Order.
Section 518C.708 — Recognition And Enforcement Of Registered Convention Support Order.
Section 518C.709 — Partial Enforcement.
Section 518C.710 — Foreign Support Agreement.
Section 518C.711 — Modification Of Convention Child Support Order.
Section 518C.712 — Personal Information; Limit On Use.
Section 518C.713 — Record In Original Language; English Translation.
Section 518C.801 — Grounds For Rendition.
Section 518C.802 — Conditions Of Rendition.
Section 518C.901 — Uniformity Of Application And Construction.