§ 407.5313

407.5313 Costs and fees. (1) The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs. (2) If the 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 reaso nable 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 provid ed 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. (3) The tribu nal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable attorney's fees if it determines that the hearing was requested primarily for delay. In a proceeding under Article 6 of this chapter, a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for a delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change. Effective: June 24, 2015 History: Amended 2015 Ky. Acts ch. 18, sec.

ng is presumed to have been requested primarily for a delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change. Effective: June 24, 2015 History: Amended 2015 Ky. Acts ch. 18, sec. 25, effective June 24, 2015. -- Contingent effective date repealed 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 101, sec. 20, effective March 23, 1998. -- Created 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 365, sec. 37, effective upon contingency.