What it costs to file for divorce, in every state.
We read the statutes and the clerks’ own fee schedules for all fifty states. Here is what we found, including the places where nobody publishes an answer at all.
New, 28 September 2026: does filing for divorce stop your spouse selling the house? — all fifty states, read from the statute. It happens automatically in 22 states, only in some counties in 8, and not at all in 20.
Every figure on this page is traced to a statute, a state court system, or a clerk’s published fee schedule — and linked to it. Not a law firm’s blog, not a legal-forms company, not an aggregator. Where a state publishes nothing, we say so instead of estimating.
See every state’s filing fee in one table: Divorce Filing Fees by State, 2026.
A filing fee is not what a divorce costs. It is the entry ticket. Service of process, a parenting class you may be required to take, court-ordered mediation, and a card surcharge all sit on top of it — and in several states one of those costs more than the filing fee itself. Maine’s filing fee is $120; its court-connected mediation is $160 for the first two sessions. Each state page below itemizes what the fee does not cover.
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The across counties column carries a range for the nine states that set filing fees locally rather than statewide. In those nine the state figure is a starting point, not an answer: Pennsylvania runs from $93 in Potter County to $398 in Bucks for a plain divorce — a wider spread than exists between most states. These are the plain-filing figures, with no children and nothing added. Several counties charge substantially more once children or extra counts are involved — Dauphin County, Pennsylvania reaches $854 — and those figures are on each state’s own page. Every number was read off that county clerk’s own published schedule. Several other states also let counties add their own charges — their rows say varies locally, not yet mapped, which means exactly that: we have not confirmed those county by county, and we are not going to imply we have.
Click a state for the full breakdown, the source links, what the fee excludes, and how a fee waiver works there.
| State | To file | Across counties | How it’s set | What’s actually published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | $192 – $324 | $192 – $324Marion to Madison | State base + local | $145.00 is the statutory docket fee under Ala. Code § 12-19-71(a)(5) and (a)(6), identical for an agreed and a contested divorce, and county local acts add on top. The range is what the circuit courts themselves publish, read on each county’s own site on the judiciary’s alacourt.gov domain on 15 October 2026: all 67 were checked, 43 publish a domestic relations filing figure and 24 publish none. Marion $192.00 and Etowah, St. Clair and Montgomery $194.00 at the bottom; Lee $297.00 and Madison $324.00 at the top; Jefferson (Birmingham) $199.00, Mobile $208.00, Baldwin $227.00, Shelby $280.00. Two counties contradict themselves on their own pages — Montgomery publishes $194.00 on its domestic relations fee chart and $227.00 on its civil division court-costs page, and Cullman $258.00 against $224.00 — and two publish different totals for an agreed and a contested divorce, Lowndes $194.00/$209.00 and Coosa $280.00/$285.00. Eight of the 43 schedules carry a printed date; 35 do not. |
| Alaska | $250 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $250.00. Alaska has no counties and no local filing fee; Administrative Rule 9(b)(1) sets one figure for any superior court civil case and the Court System’s schedule names divorce, dissolution, custody and paternity together at $250. Paying by card adds 3% of the transaction — $7.50 — under Administrative Bulletin No. 95, and the TrueFiling vendor collects a non-refundable processing fee the Court System does not quantify. TrueFiling support told The Cusp by email on 21 October 2026 that checkout shows only one 3% processing fee, so we count one charge, not two; the court has not confirmed this. |
| Arizona | $261 – $436 | Varies locally — not yet mapped | State base + local | $261 – $436 |
| Arkansas | $165 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $165.00 to file on paper. Both county circuit clerk schedules we can reach publish it as a single figure with no e-filing component; the $20.00 electronic filing system fee this row carried until 2 October 2026 is no longer published by the source it came from. |
| California | $435 – $450 | Varies locally — not yet mapped | State base + local | $435.00 – $450.00 |
| Colorado | $260 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $260.00 |
| Connecticut | $360 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $360.00 |
| Delaware | $175 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $175.00 — the $165.00 ‘Civil Filing – Divorce’ cost plus the $10.00 Court Security Assessment, which the schedule’s page-3 list expressly applies to a PETITION FOR DIVORCE |
| Florida | $397.50 – $409.00 | $397.50 – $409.0021 counties checked · most post $408.00 | State base + local | Five clerks post $397.50 and collect $10.50 more at final judgment. Most post $408.00 with that charge included. Five post $409.00, the extra $1 being the clerk’s Court Docket Fund. |
| Georgia | $213 – $220 | $213 – $220Webster to Fulton and Gwinnett · plain filing | Set locally | Georgia is nearly uniform because the fee is almost entirely statutory (the floor no county can go below is $203.00). OCGA § 15-6-77.4 adds a $5.00 Children’s Trust Fund fee to divorce filings specifically, which is why Fulton shows general civil at $215.00 and divorce at $220.00; SB 322 (2024) raised civil filing fees by $4.00 from 1 July 2024, which is why $218.00 recurs. The range is the Georgia page’s, across county schedules dated July 2024 or later: Webster $213.00 and Dade $213.50 at the bottom, Coweta and Paulding $215.00, DeKalb $217.00, Cobb, Chatham, Cherokee, Muscogee, Hall, Bulloch, Dougherty, Burke and Harris $218.00, Fulton and Gwinnett $220.00. The largest counties alone run $217.00 – $220.00. Footnote on the older schedules: Richmond County’s $211.00 (schedule effective 1 January 2021) and Upson County’s $211.50 (effective 1 January 2020) predate SB 322, so they are stale documents rather than evidence those counties are cheaper, and they are left out of the range. Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb, DeKalb and Webster (and the Richmond schedule’s date) were re-read on 13 October 2026. |
| Hawaii | $215 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $215.00 in statutory charges ($265.00 where either party has a minor child) – summed by us from the statute, because Hawaii publishes no combined total |
| Idaho | $207 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $207.00 |
| Illinois | $306 – $388 | $306 – $388Randolph and Champaign to Cook · plain filing, no minor children | Set locally | Statutory maximum $371.00 in a county of 3,000,000 or more (Cook); statutory maximum $321.00 in every other county. Actual confirmed county example: $319.00 (Madison). Kane County is the exception for children: $369 without children but $459 with them (schedule effective 1 September 2026), because it folds in a $90 Kids Divorce Educational Program fee; $459 is the highest figure confirmed in Illinois and sits outside the $306 – $388 range above, as the Illinois page says. Cook $388, DuPage $355, Kane $369 and $459, and Randolph $306 were re-read on 13 October 2026; Cook and Randolph print no date after the 1 July 2026 $5 increase and may be $5 higher. |
| Indiana | $157 – $177 | $157 – $177+$20 ADR fee in plan counties | State base + $20 ADR fee | $157.00 statewide by statute; $177.00 in counties with an approved Alternative Dispute Resolution plan, which adds $20 under I.C. 33-23-6-1. The Office of Court Services names 45 such counties on its ADR Fund Plan County Contact List (updated 8/3/2023) and says more than half of the 92 counties have plans. |
| Iowa | $285 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $285.00 |
| Kansas | $195 | Johnson +$1.50, Sedgwick +$2.00 | State base + local | $195.00 statewide; Johnson County adds $1.50 and Sedgwick County $2.00. |
| Kentucky | $228statewide base, plus county | No county schedules published | State base + local | $228.00 statewide: $188.00 circuit civil filing fee under CR 3.02(1), as amended by Supreme Court Order 2026-15 effective 1 July 2026, plus a $20.00 court technology fee and the $20.00 Access to Justice Fee under KRS 27A.630. Kentucky circuit clerks do not publish county fee schedules — they are officers of a unified state court system, and the Circuit Court Clerks’ Manual reaches its own “Filing Fees” section and prints no amount. What is published is the county add-on, adopted by fiscal-court ordinance. We read the ordinance text in seven counties — Fayette, Boone, Daviess, Oldham, Henderson, McCracken and Scott — and each adds the statutory maximum $25.00, so the filing cost there is $253.00 (the $228.00 statewide fee plus that published add-on). No clerk prints the combined total, and a county law library fee of $1.00–$3.00 may sit on top. Jefferson (Louisville) is expected to charge the same $25.00 but we could not locate its ordinance, so it is not confirmed; Kenton, Hopkins, Warren and Robertson are also unconfirmed and carry the $228.00 minimum. Full county detail is on the Kentucky page. |
| Louisiana | $240 – $500advance deposit, not a fee | $240 – $500East Baton Rouge to Jefferson · plain divorce, one service included | Set locally | Louisiana does not charge a filing fee. Parishes take an advance deposit against costs — refundable in part, and replenishable if it runs out. La. R.S. 13:842 sets a $20.00 floor and nothing else. The range is the Louisiana page’s, for a plain divorce petition (no rule, no TRO) with one service of process: East Baton Rouge $240.00, Tangipahoa and St. Tammany $250.00, Lafourche $275.00, Orleans $337.50 (a non-refundable filing fee, not a deposit), Plaquemines $350.00, Calcasieu, Lafayette and Rapides $400.00, Caddo $450.00, West Baton Rouge $475.00, Jefferson $500.00 ($400.00 where the spouse signs an acceptance of service). Adding a rule or a TRO raises the deposit; the highest figure confirmed is $600.00 (Jefferson and Lafayette, rule plus TRO). East Baton Rouge also publishes $150.00 for a family new suit with no service of process at all (Tangipahoa $200.00), which is not how a divorce ordinarily proceeds, and it bills the $125.00 Judgment of Divorce separately. East Baton Rouge, Orleans, Jefferson, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Lafourche, Plaquemines, West Baton Rouge, Caddo, Rapides and Lafayette were re-read on 13 October 2026; Calcasieu is not re-verified and Lafayette’s page prints an August 2018 effective date. |
| Maine | $120 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $120.00 |
| Maryland | $165 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $165.00 |
| Massachusetts | $215 ($220 for a complaint) | Set statewide | Same statewide | $215.00 for a Joint Petition for Divorce under MGL c.208 §1A; $220.00 for a Complaint for Divorce under §1B or a fault complaint under §1, which add the Trial Court’s $5.00 summons charge. |
| Michigan | $175 ($255 with children) | Set statewide | Same statewide | $175.00; $255.00 where there are minor children. |
| Minnesota | $390 + local | $402 – $4054 of 87 counties read | State base + local | $390.00 statewide and fully statutory — $340.00 under Minn. Stat. § 357.021, subd. 2(1) plus $50.00 under § 518.005, subd. 6 — and each spouse who files a paper pays it, not only the petitioner. On top sits a county law library fee set by each county’s law library board: $402.00 in Hennepin, $405.00 in Ramsey, Dakota and St. Louis. That is four counties of 87; the rest are published in the State Register rather than in any one list, so the figures either side of the dash are a floor and a sample, not a range. |
| Mississippi | $148 – $168 | $158 – $163Contested: DeSoto to Harrison · plain filing | Set locally | Mississippi splits divorce in two. A contested/fault complaint runs $158.00 in seven of the eight counties we read and $163.00 in Harrison; an uncontested/joint complaint runs $148.00 everywhere except Harrison, which charges $168.00. Miss. Code Ann. § 25-7-9 fixes the $85.00 clerk fee and the assessments; county boards add the rest. |
| Missouri | $97.50 – $197.50deposit, not a fee | $97.50 – $197.50Buchanan to Clay (with children) · $177.50 is the top without children | Set locally | Missouri takes a deposit against costs, not a filing fee — every schedule we read says so on its face. The range is the Missouri page’s: $97.50 (Buchanan) to $197.50 (Clay County, petition with children). Without children the top is $177.50 (City of St. Louis; Clay is $137.50). Deposits confirmed on that page: Buchanan $97.50, Andrew $102.50, Jefferson $130.50, Callaway, Greene, Morgan and Cass $132.50, Clay $137.50, Jackson $144.50, St. Louis County $148.50, Boone $162.50, St. Louis City $177.50. The spread is narrow because RSMo § 488.012 has the Supreme Court set the amounts centrally — Court Operating Rule 21.01 fixes $45.00 for a circuit civil filing and counties add local surcharges on top. St. Louis City is an independent city, not a county; excluding it the county ceiling without children is $162.50. Buchanan, Andrew, Jackson, St. Louis County, St. Louis City and Clay were re-read on 13 October 2026. An earlier version of this row also showed Taney $90.50, Jasper $127.50, Franklin $132.50 and Webster $138.50; those four are not on the Missouri page, Taney, Jasper and Franklin could not be traced to an official schedule, and they are left out of the range (not re-verified). |
| Montana | $170 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $170.00 |
| Nebraska | $200 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $200.00, set statewide by statute; the Nebraska Judicial Branch schedule effective 07-01-2026 lists all fourteen components and they sum exactly to it. Two of the fourteen are new: the $26 state docket fee (§ 33-127) and the $10 case management systems software fee (§ 33-107.04) were created by LB935 (2026) §§ 35 and 36, operative 1 July 2026 — so the dissolution fee is $36 higher than it was on 30 June 2026. Re-verified against the statutes and the schedule on 9 October 2026. |
| Nevada | $284 – $299 | $284 – $299Washoe to Clark · two counties confirmed | State base + local | $284.00 (Washoe County, Reno) to $299.00 (Clark County, Las Vegas): the two counties confirmed on the Nevada page, which gives both as the range. Clark’s official fee list itemizes the $299.00 in eleven statutory lines; Washoe publishes only the $284.00 total. Both schedules were re-read on 13 October 2026. |
| New Hampshire | $280 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $280.00 without minor children / $282.00 with minor children or parenting matters |
| New Jersey | $300 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $300.00 |
| New Mexico | $137 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $137.00 for a domestic relations case, against $132.00 for an ordinary civil case. Confirmed 4 October 2026 against the published fee schedule of all thirteen judicial districts: all thirteen charge $137.00. The Second Judicial District publishes a 2.4% service fee on card payments. |
| New York | $210 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $210.00 (index number only) – $335.00 (index number + RJI + note of issue) |
| North Carolina | $225 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $225.00 |
| North Dakota | $160 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $160.00 |
| Ohio | $200 – $550 | $200 – $550Cuyahoga to Hancock · no minor children | Set locally | The widest spread of any state — 2.75 times, end to end. Twenty-five counties read: $200.00 in Cuyahoga, Monroe and Morgan, up to $550.00 in Hancock, with Meigs at $500.00 and Union at $450.00. Median $325.00. Ohio publishes no statewide figure and no cap: R.C. 2303.20(A) fixes the clerk’s own fee at just $25.00 per cause of action, R.C. 2323.31 lets each common pleas court set an advance deposit by rule, and the surcharges in R.C. 2303.201 are capped individually rather than in total. Also ask which action you are pricing. Divorce and dissolution differ in several counties — Cuyahoga $200.00 against $150.00, Franklin $275.00 against $225.00, Holmes $275.00 against $200.00. Our previous $485 ceiling was Delaware County’s divorce WITH children; its no-children figure is $385.00. |
| Oklahoma | $245.89 – $258.39 | $245.89 – $258.39by county security fee · self-represented | State base + local | $245.89 where the county charges no courthouse security assessment, $252.14 where it charges $5 (Tulsa, McCurtain), $258.39 where it charges the full $10 (Cleveland, Comanche, Kay). Add $10 at each tier where an attorney files rather than the party: 28 O.S. § 86(D)(2) takes the Lengthy Trial Fund fee from the filing lawyer. Seven of 77 counties publish a figure we could read; no county page publishes $245.89 itself, which is the clerks’ own figure for a county with no assessment. |
| Oregon | $301 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $301.00 |
| Pennsylvania | $93 – $398 | $93 – $398Potter to Bucks · one-count complaint | Set locally | $93.00 – $398.00 is the fee for a one-count divorce complaint, cheapest to dearest of the 16 counties confirmed: Potter $93.00, Berks $250.00, Philadelphia $334.73, Bucks $398.00. Pennsylvania publishes no statewide divorce filing fee, so “To file” and “Across counties” are the same range. Extra counts, custody and hearing-officer fees are not included. Potter, Berks (fee bill effective 28 September 2026), Philadelphia and Bucks were re-read on 13 October 2026; the other twelve counties carry the dates on the Pennsylvania page. |
| Rhode Island | $120 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $120.00 statutory entry fee; $140.75 total when filing electronically |
| South Carolina | $150 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $150.00 |
| South Dakota | $97 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $97.00 |
| Tennessee | $234.50 – $356.50no minor children; $309.50 – $431.50 with | $234.50 – $356.50Davidson to Shelby · no minor children ($309.50 – $431.50 with minor children) | State fee + county tax | Tennessee stopped being a purely local state on 1 January 2026. Public Chapter 486 (2025) rewrote Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-21-401 and set a statewide clerk fee of $175.00 for a divorce without minor children, rising to $200.00 on 1 January 2027 and $225.00 on 1 January 2028. With minor children: $250.00, then $275.00, then $300.00. All remaining county variation is litigation tax, where the county portion runs from Davidson’s $33.75 to Hawkins’ $73.75 — which is why a rural county can cost more than Nashville. Eight counties read on 2026 schedules: Davidson $234.50, Blount $245.00, Anderson $254.50, Hawkins $274.50, Knox $289.50, Shelby $356.50. Hamilton and Franklin still publish pre-2026 schedules built on the old $127.00 clerk fee. Davidson, Knox and Shelby (all effective 1 January 2026) were re-read on 13 October 2026: Davidson $234.50 and $309.50, Knox $289.50 and $364.50, Shelby $356.50 and $431.50, without and with minor children. The range above runs from the lowest to the highest of those and matches the Tennessee page; the with-children range is the same counties plus $75.00. The full Tennessee schedule, including the 2027 and 2028 increases. |
| Texas | $350 – $401 | $350.00 statewide+ up to $51.00 in DRO counties, children only · Collin $350 · Harris, Travis $365 · Dallas, Bexar, Tarrant $401 | State base + local | $350.00 – $401.00 |
| Utah | $350 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $350.00 |
| Vermont | $90 – $295 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $90.00 – $295.00; the tier depends on the filing route, not the county |
| Virginia | $83 – $94 | All 120 circuit courts re-checked 6 Oct 2026 — 31 at $94, 26 at $89, only 4 at $83 | State base + local | $83.00 – $94.00 depending on the circuit court |
| Washington | $364 | Varies locally — not yet mapped | State base + local | $364.00 |
| West Virginia | $135 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $135.00 |
| Wisconsin | $273.00$293.00 with a request for support or maintenance | Set statewide; Milwaukee adds $7.50 | Same statewide | $273.00 is the fee to commence a divorce, annulment or legal separation with no request for support or maintenance: a $130 filing fee, $38 family court counseling services fee, $81 court support services surcharge and $24 justice information surcharge. It is $293.00 where the petition requests support or maintenance (a $20 fee that is not charged to parties receiving public assistance). Milwaukee County adds a $7.50 surcharge to either, so $280.50 or $300.50 there. Read on 3 November 2026 from the Director of State Courts’ fee tables effective 1 November 2026, which carry the 2025 Wis. Act 179 increases. Filings made before that date paid $184.50 or $194.50. |
| Wyoming | $160 | Set statewide | Same statewide | $160.00 |
Three things the numbers above hide
A published fee can be a ceiling, not a price
Florida’s statute says the clerk may charge “up to” $295 for the base fee. Illinois sets statutory maximums by county population tier. In both, a clerk charging less is following the law, not making a mistake — which is why the posted number differs county to county in states whose fee is supposedly uniform.
Some of it isn’t due when you file
Some Florida clerks collect $397.50 at filing and another $10.50 only when the judge signs the final judgment; most fold that $10.50 into a $408.00 filing fee. Montana charges the responding spouse $60 to appear and the prevailing party $50 at entry of judgment. North Dakota charges the responding spouse $100 to file an answer. A single “filing fee” number quietly compresses two or three separate moments of paying.
Almost every state will let you file without paying, and almost nobody asks
The mechanism has different names — in forma pauperis, a poverty affidavit, an affidavit of indigency, a fee waiver application — but it exists in nearly every state, it is decided on a form rather than at a hearing in many of them, and it often covers service of process too. South Dakota’s waiver covers the sheriff’s service fee; North Dakota’s explicitly does not. Each state page says which.
How we built this
Fifty states, read one at a time from primary sources: statutes on state legislature servers, judiciary fee schedules, and county clerk fee pages. Where two official sources disagreed we said so rather than picking one, and then went and found which was current — Iowa’s judiciary says $285 while the published Code text still says $265, and the enrolled 2026 Act settles it: $285 for fees paid on and after 1 July 2026, with the Code edition simply compiled before the session sat.
Several states actively resist being read. Hawaii’s entire judiciary website returns a blanket refusal to automated requests; we found the statute on the Legislature’s alternate host instead. Kentucky was on this list until we checked again on 27 September 2026: its circuit civil filing fee is set at $188.00 by CR 3.02(1), amended by Supreme Court of Kentucky Order 2026-15 effective 1 July 2026 and published on the court system’s own site. What is still not published is what each county adds on top. Georgia and Mississippi publish their statutes only through a commercial portal that serves no readable text.
Court fees change without announcement, and most fee schedules carry no date at all. Confirm with your clerk before you write the check.
What people actually report paying
Everything above is the filing fee, traced to the statute. It is also the smallest number in a divorce. Here is the other side of it — and a warning about how to read it.
We read hundreds of public accounts from people who have been through it. Three findings held up across nearly all of them:
- The total is bimodal, not an average. Self-filers cluster around $300–$500. Anyone with two lawyers and a real disagreement clusters around $20,000–$30,000. Almost nobody reports the middle, so “the average divorce costs X” describes almost no actual divorce.
- Cost is driven by the other person’s conduct, not by how complicated your assets are. People with millions who agreed to split evenly reported paying filing fees only. People with one house and one child reported $45,000 because the case got dragged out.
- Every large surprise is a third professional. The guardian ad litem, the custody evaluator, the forensic accountant, the QDRO preparer — all billed separately from both lawyers, and often introduced by the court before anyone had budgeted for one.
These are anecdotes, not prices. People post about a divorce cost when the number shocked them, so the high figures are heavily over-represented and the ordinary divorce is nearly invisible. Every figure on the full page is labeled with how many people reported it.
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And the surcharge nobody looks up
Whether you have to e-file at all, and what e-filing adds on top of the fee — all fifty states.
Can your spouse be made to pay your lawyer?
When a judge can shift attorney’s fees, and getting money for a lawyer during the case — all fifty states.
Then there’s everything after the filing fee
Forms, deadlines, residency rules and what happens to the house — one kit per state.
Or find someone to help
Attorneys, mediators, CDFAs and therapists in all 50 states, credentials checked against official state records. Nobody paid to be there.
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