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Court Costs
Before you file, it helps to know what filing actually costs. These tools break down the individual fees that add up to a small claims lawsuit — the court's filing fee, and eventually the cost of serving the other party — each cited to a real court fee schedule, by state.
Nothing here is legal advice, and none of it predicts how your case will turn out. It's the arithmetic you'd otherwise have to dig out of a scanned PDF yourself, done once and kept current.
See exactly what it costs to file a small claims case, by state — cited to your court's own fee schedule.
Open tool →Service of Process Cost CalculatorSee what it costs to serve a defendant, by state and by method — sheriff, court-arranged mail, or certified mail — cited to each state's own fee schedule.
Open tool →Total Cost to Sue CalculatorThe full out-of-pocket cost to sue in small claims court — filing fee plus service of process, added together and cited to each court's own fee schedule.
Open tool →Small Claims Judgment Interest CalculatorSee how much interest has accrued on an unpaid small claims judgment, using each state's statutory postjudgment interest rate.
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