Linda S. Frank

Clerk of the Circuit Court

Sixth Judicial Circuit

Champaign County, Illinois

 

FEE SCHEDULE

ALL FEES MUST BE PAID AT THE TIME OF FILING

 

The following is the filing fee and first adversarial pleading fee for all civil and probate cases.  The complete definition of case types is included as an addendum to this schedule.

 

Case Type:                   

Filing Fee:

Answer Fee:

 

 

 

AD (Adoption)

$65

$110

CH (Chancery)

$210

$110

D (Divorce)

$210

$110

ED (Eminent Domain)

$200

$110

F (Family- petition for marriage license)

$60

n/a

    Putative Father

$60

$110

    All Others

$90

$110

L (Law- damages over $50,000)

$210

$110

LM (LAW $10,000.01-$15,000)

$125

$110

LM (Law $15,000.01-$50,000)

$210

$110

LM (FED Possession only)

$100

$100

LM (FED, under $15,000)

$100

$110

LM (FED, above $15,000)   

$210

$110

MC (Municipal Corporation)

n/c

$110

MH (Mental Health)

$100

$110

MR (Miscellaneous Remedies)

 

 

      Administrative Review

$200

$100

      Relief by Habeas Corpus

$150

 

      All Others

$210

$110

OP (Order of Protection)

n/c

$110

P (Probate) Administration of the estate of a decedent

$200

n/a

     Small Estate (under $15,000)

$90

 

     Heirship, Will to probate without administration, or Letters of Office for a

     particular purpose without administration of the estate.

$90

 

     Administration of the estate of a Ward

$125

$80

     Ward’s estate under $15,000

$90

$80

     Collection of Judgment; Settlement of wrongful death when there is no

         Other administration of the estate

$100

$80

SC (Small Claims $0 -> $250)

$60

$80

     (Small Claims $250.01 -> $500

$70

$80

     (Small Claims $500.01 -> $1,500)

$90

$80

     (Small Claims  $1,500.01 -> $2500)

$90

$110

     (Small Claims $2,500.01 -> $10,000)

$125

$110

TX (Tax, if filed by municipal corporation)

n/c

$100

    Petition for Tax Deed (one parcel)

$250

n/a

    for each additional parcel

$60

n/a

Confession of Judgment: Where Judgment does not exceed $1,500

$100

 

    Judgment is $1,500.01 to $15,000

$165

 

    Judgment Exceeds $15,000.01

$250

 

Counterclaim or Joining Third Party Defendant are charged as a new filing

    Fee based on the action they are filing.

 

 

 

 

 

Registration of a foreign judgment:  same as original filing fee.

 

 

 

 

 

Jury Demands:

 

 

     a)  12 member jury

$212.50

 

     b)  Probate/OV cases

$137.50

 

     c)  Small Claims 12 member

$25.00

 

     d)  Small Claims 6 member

$12.50

 

 

 

 

Auxiliary Proceedings:

 

 

    a) Garnishments, Wage Deductions, Citations:

 

 

         Amount claimed: $0-$1,000

$15

 

                                    $1,000.01 to $5,000

$30

 

                                     over $5,000

$50

 

    b) Issuing Alias Summons or Alias Citation

$5

 

    c) Mailing a Petition for Rule

$2

 

    d) Mailing Notices by First-Class Mail

$2

Plus costs

    e) All processes or notices required to be mailed by certified mail

$5

Plus costs

     f) Each Certification or Authentication

$2

 

 

 

 

Miscellaneous Fees:

 

 

    a) Reproduction of each page of automated medium(no charge for       reprinting a computer receipt)

$6

 

    b) Record Search (per name per year searched)  (if done at the counter, the first search is free)

$6

 

    c) Annual child support processing fee

$36

 

    d) Reproduction, photo copies, microfilm:

 

 

        1) First page

$1

 

        2) Next 19 pages, per page

$.50

 

        3) All remaining pages, per page

$.25

 

    e) Support ledger printout

$6

 

    f)  Certification to Sec of State per Family Financial Responsibility  law

$5

 

    g)  Filing a Deed of Voluntary Assignment

$20

 

    h)  Recording a Deed of Voluntary Assignment (for each 100 words)

$.50

 

    i)  Correction of case number or case title

$25

 

    j)  NSF, account closed, or stop payment fees (child support is exempt)

$25

 

 

 

 

Expungements

$164

 

 

 

 

PETITIONS / MOTIONS:

 

 

1)       To vacate or modify any final judgment or order if filed within 30 days of that judgment or order. Except FED’s and Small Claims.

$50

 

2)       To vacate or modify any final judgment or

order if filed later than 30 days of the judgment or order.                      

$75

 

      3)   To vacate a bond forfeiture order

$40

 

      4)   To vacate ex-parte judgments

$40

 

5)       To vacate or amend final orders (Criminal/Traffic)

$40

 

6)       Vacate “failure to appear” / “failure to comply” notices sent to SOS

$40

 

7)       To vacate judgment on forfeitures

$40

 

8)       Commitment under the Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities

      Code  & for filing a transcript of the commitment proceedings held

       in another county.

$50

 

 

 

 

Change of venue:

 

 

a)       For filing into this jurisdiction on a change of venue:

same filing fee as if it were the commencement of a new suit.

 

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