Court costs

Court costs rise most states for the activities of their courts in most court proceedings.

Germany

The court costs are made up of the court fees and court costs. The court costs are levied on the basis of the Law on Court Costs ( GKG ), the Law on legal costs in family matters ( FamGKG ), the court and notary fees Act ( GNotKG ) and various ancillary laws.

Fees are levied for the operation of the Court as such. They fall mostly at certain stages of the procedure. The amount of the fee is not dependent on the state of the process which actually grown expenses. In most cases the amount of the fees after the dispute is directed.

In contrast, the court expenses depend on the expenses incurred by the judge in each case. These include, for example, the documents package (formerly clerical expenses ), the cost of allowances to witnesses and experts after the JVEG, transport costs and certain postal and telecommunications costs.

In practice, significant are mainly the experts expenses. They depend on any pre-specified JVEG hourly rate and are - especially in small amounts in dispute - often higher than the court fees. Witnesses and jurors are generally compensated for their loss of earnings; also their travel expenses will be reimbursed.

In many types of procedures, the intervention of the court of the power of an advance is made dependent. To prove directly with the application for even the payment of court costs, court costs, one can use trademarks or court costs Templars.

Court costs are the legal costs together with the legal costs of the parties ( the so-called extra-judicial costs ). Who has to bear the litigation costs, the court will decide at the end of procedure; this decision is called cost basis or inaccurate decision also cost decision.

Height

In most cases, a certain number will be charged the amount in dispute -related court fees for certain process steps. These result from § 34 GKG and the matching Annex 2 of the Act. For a dispute to 3.500 EUR for a fee at EUR 100 up to EUR 10,000 is less than 200 EUR. In addition, a fee will not exceed 1.5% of the amount in dispute, 500,000 EUR, it is about 3000 EUR, over 500,000 EUR 3 per mille also in dispute.

See

  • Baumbachsche formula
  • Cost of a labor court proceedings in Germany
  • Process costs
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