How Your Filing Fees are Apportioned

By law, this office collects all court costs.  The filing fee consists of the separate fees of several agencies incorporated into one.  The advance-deposit, $365.00 filing fee is distributed as follows to the following agencies:

(Based on a typical Petition for Damages with 1 service and petition of average length)
*Any unused portion of this deposit is refunded at the termination of the litigation. 

This office receives for itself only a small portion (22% - 25%) of the filing fee, and it serves as the collection agent for the courts, the Sheriff, and the State. We thus provide a service not only to those agencies, but to litigants as well: The procedure allows attorneys to write one check instead of several for each case. The current filing fee is the same as it was when I took office, except for the $49.00 Judicial Building Fund fee added by the legislature.  Rest assured that I share your concern about the potential for rising court costs and will do everything I can to control them.

Yours truly,


Jon A. Gegenheimer
Clerk of Court, Jefferson Parish

Office hours for all three locations are 8:30 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.  Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays.