Chancery Filing Fees
- Effective July 1, 2016
- Filing Fees Must be Paid in Advance
Category One Cases - $389.50
Contracts, torts, personal injury, property damage, malpractice, wrongful Death, employment discrimination, civil rights suits, tax disputes, special remedies and cases not otherwise specified.
Category Two Cases - $314.50
Workers’ comp cases; appeals to Circuit from General Sessions, City Courts or other Courts or hearings; transfers from foreign counties; writs of mandamus; condemnation/inverse condemnation & quo warranto actions.
Category Three Cases - $264.50
Adoptions, legitimations, paternity cases, termination of parental rights, & other domestic relations matters not otherwise designated; restoration of citizenship, name changes, minor settlements, enforcement of foreign judgments; and orders of protection (fees not required in advance), removal of disabilities (emancipation).
Category Four Cases - $77.00
| Child support enforcement and modification, interstate support cases. | |
| If serving by certified mail |
$85.93 |
| Probate | |
| Large Estate |
$394.50 |
| Small Estate |
$205.50 |
| Guardianship/Conservatorship |
$324.50 |
| Annual Accounting |
$40.00 |
| Divorces | |
| with children |
$364.50 |
| without children |
$289.50 |
| Summons or subpoena served by Rutherford County Sheriff | |
| In County |
$42.00 |
| Out of County |
$42.00 |
| Reopened Cases | |
| Contempt |
$77.00 |
| Parenting Plan Modification |
$77.00 |
| Other Post-Judgment Requests |
$25.00 |
| If serving by certified mail add |
$8.93 |
| Other Fees | |
| Birth Certificate |
$30.00 |
| Copies – Per Page |
$0.50 |
| Certification and Seal |
$5.00 |
| Exemplified Copies |
$10.00+ $.50/pg |
| Fax Fees | |
| Out |
$3.00 + $.50/pg |
| In |
$5.00 + $1.00/pg |
| Continuances (Taxes at end of case) |
$7.00 |
| Subpoenas |
$6.00 |
| Post-Judgment Requests |
$25.00 |
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Garnishments, execution, levy, post judgment interrogatory, publication request, motions to set installment payments, and post judgment orders and pleas. |
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| Receiving Funds On Confirmation Of Private Sale |
$40.00 |
| Surrenders |
$50.00 |
| Expungements |
$100.00 |
| Preparing Record On Appeal |
$300.00 |
| Third Party Complaints Same as original complaint | |
| Cross-Filings and Counter-Complaints |
$100.00 |
| Wage Assignment |
$33.93 |
| Publication | |
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Daily News Journal |
$225.00 |
| Flat fee for divorces and adoptions only. Clerk will request quotes for other types of cases. |
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Murfreesboro Post |
$220.00 |
| Flat fee for all court cases. |