Section 5700.313 Of Chapter 3. Civil Provisions Of General Application From California Family Law Code >> Division 9. >> Part 6. >> Chapter 3.
5700.313
. (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 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 Chapter 6, a hearing is
presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered
support order is confirmed or enforced without change.