About Filing Fee Finder
Court filing fees are public information, but they are scattered across statutory fee schedules, judiciary PDFs, and county clerk websites that are hard to find and harder to compare. Filing Fee Finder collects those numbers in one place, county by county, and keeps the receipts.
The rule every number follows
Every fee on this site must cite a government source — the state judiciary's published fee schedule or the clerk's own fee page. Each amount carries three fields: the source link, the schedule's effective date, and the date we last checked it. Our build pipeline refuses to publish a fee unless the amount literally appears in the cited government document. If we can't verify it, it doesn't ship.
Current sources
- Superior Court of California — Statewide Civil Fee Schedule (effective Jan. 1, 2026) — schedule dated 2026-01-01, last checked 2026-08-25
- Texas Office of Court Administration — District Court Civil Filing Fees (revised Nov. 3, 2025) — schedule dated 2025-11-03, last checked 2026-08-25
- Texas Office of Court Administration — County-Level Court Civil Filing Fees (revised Oct. 27, 2025) — schedule dated 2025-10-27, last checked 2026-08-25
- Texas Office of Court Administration — Justice Court Civil Filing Fees (effective Jan. 1, 2024) — schedule dated 2024-01-01, last checked 2026-08-25
What the fees do and don't include
We show the court's filing fees. Service of process, certified copies, publication notices, and attorney's fees are always separate, and every page says so. Where a county adds a verified local surcharge, the county page shows the local amount and notes the statewide base.
Corrections
Fees change on statutory cycles. If a clerk's office or a reader spots an outdated number, email jude@everydaysoftware.aiwith a link to the current official schedule and we'll fix it.