What it actually costs to file at your county courthouse
Filing fees for divorce, probate, small claims, eviction, and name changes — county by county, taken from the court system's own published fee schedule. 312 counties covered so far, every amount with a source link and the date we checked it.
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California
58 counties
- Divorce$435
- Probate$435
- Small Claims$30–$75
- Eviction$240
- Name Change$435
How this site works
Court filing fees are public numbers, but they live in clerk PDFs and statutory fee schedules that are hard to find and harder to compare. We read those schedules and publish the numbers with their citations. Every fee on this site carries three things: a link to the court system's own published schedule, the schedule's effective date, and the date we last verified it. If we can't cite it to a government source, we don't publish it.
Fees shown are the court's filing fees only. Serving the other party, certified copies, publication notices, and attorney's fees are always extra, and we say so on every page.