Okla. Stat. tit. 43, § 43-601-313
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Costs and fees
Official statutory text
A. The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or
other costs.
B. If an 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 reasonable
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 the
responding state or foreign country, except as provided 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.
C. The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable
attorney's fees if it determines that a hearing was requested
primarily for delay. In a proceeding under Article 6 of this title,
a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if
a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change.
other costs.
B. If an 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 reasonable
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 the
responding state or foreign country, except as provided 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.
C. The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable
attorney's fees if it determines that a hearing was requested
primarily for delay. In a proceeding under Article 6 of this title,
a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if
a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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