Texas divorce filing fees by county.

Texas fixes most of the divorce filing fee by statute, so the county figures sit close together. Across the 11 counties below, the lowest total any clerk prints is $350 and the highest is $401. What differs is whether the schedule adds Domestic Relations Office (DRO) fees for cases with children, and what you pay on top of the filing fee to have the papers served. Those are shown apart from the filing fee, and we do not add components together unless the clerk prints the total.

The statewide chart from the Office of Court Administration, “District Court Civil Suits and Actions,” prints “Divorce (Not Involving Children)” as total filing fees of $350.00, and “Divorce (Involving Children)” as “x ≥ $350.00*,” with the note that $350.00 is the fee if the county has no Domestic Relations Office. Each page of the chart is marked “(OCA revised 11/03/2025).” Read the chart.

Filing fee by county

Each figure was read from the linked clerk document on 17 October 2026. Counties are listed alphabetically. This is not a ranking by population.

Paid on top of the filing fee

E-filing vendor charges and service of process are not part of the filing fee. They are listed here on their own, and only where an official source prints the amount.

How to read this table

• Fee as printed is what the clerk’s own schedule lists for an original petition for divorce. It is not the cost of a divorce. Serving the papers, any required parenting class, and lawyers are separate. The Texas divorce costs page covers those.
• With or without children. Where a source prints different amounts, both are shown. Where it prints one amount (Cameron, Collin, Denton), no split is implied. Travis prints a base fee and a separate DRO line instead of a with-children total, so we show both lines and no sum.
• Check the date. Denton prints an effective date of 2022, Dallas 2024 and Cameron 2024, and Bexar and Fort Bend print none. A clerk may have changed an amount since its schedule was last updated. Confirm the current amount with the clerk before you pay.
• Cost waiver. If you cannot afford the fee you can file a Statement of Inability to Afford Payment of Court Costs. See the Texas divorce costs page.

Counties not yet checked

Texas has 254 counties (Texas Senate Resolution 449, 89th Legislature). We have confirmed the divorce filing fee for 11 of them and show no figure, and make no estimate, for the other 243. Among the larger counties we did not complete: the Nueces, Galveston and Brazoria clerk pages refused our request with an access-denied (HTTP 403) response on 17 October 2026; the Williamson schedule lists one amount for “All New Civil / Family Suits” without naming divorce; the Montgomery clerk page lists no divorce fee; the Bell page prints a base fee that we could not tie to a dated schedule; and the Lubbock clerk schedule we found is dated 2022. Check the district clerk’s own site for: Anderson, Andrews, Angelina, Aransas, Archer, Armstrong, Atascosa, Austin, Bailey, Bandera, Bastrop, Baylor, Bee, Bell, Blanco, Borden, Bosque, Bowie, Brazoria, Brazos, Brewster, Briscoe, Brooks, Brown, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell, Calhoun, Callahan, Camp, Carson, Cass, Castro, Chambers, Cherokee, Childress, Clay, Cochran, Coke, Coleman, Collingsworth, Colorado, Comal, Comanche, Concho, Cooke, Coryell, Cottle, Crane, Crockett, Crosby, Culberson, Dallam, Dawson, DeWitt, Deaf Smith, Delta, Dickens, Dimmit, Donley, Duval, Eastland, Ector, Edwards, Ellis, Erath, Falls, Fannin, Fayette, Fisher, Floyd, Foard, Franklin, Freestone, Frio, Gaines, Galveston, Garza, Gillespie, Glasscock, Goliad, Gonzales, Gray, Grayson, Gregg, Grimes, Guadalupe, Hale, Hall, Hamilton, Hansford, Hardeman, Hardin, Harrison, Hartley, Haskell, Hays, Hemphill, Henderson, Hill, Hockley, Hood, Hopkins, Houston, Howard, Hudspeth, Hunt, Hutchinson, Irion, Jack, Jackson, Jasper, Jeff Davis, Jefferson, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Johnson, Jones, Karnes, Kaufman, Kendall, Kenedy, Kent, Kerr, Kimble, King, Kinney, Kleberg, Knox, La Salle, Lamar, Lamb, Lampasas, Lavaca, Lee, Leon, Liberty, Limestone, Lipscomb, Live Oak, Llano, Loving, Lubbock, Lynn, Madison, Marion, Martin, Mason, Matagorda, Maverick, McCulloch, McLennan, McMullen, Medina, Menard, Midland, Milam, Mills, Mitchell, Montague, Montgomery, Moore, Morris, Motley, Nacogdoches, Navarro, Newton, Nolan, Nueces, Ochiltree, Oldham, Orange, Palo Pinto, Panola, Parker, Parmer, Pecos, Polk, Potter, Presidio, Rains, Randall, Reagan, Real, Red River, Reeves, Refugio, Roberts, Robertson, Rockwall, Runnels, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, San Patricio, San Saba, Schleicher, Scurry, Shackelford, Shelby, Sherman, Smith, Somervell, Starr, Stephens, Sterling, Stonewall, Sutton, Swisher, Taylor, Terrell, Terry, Throckmorton, Titus, Tom Green, Trinity, Tyler, Upshur, Upton, Uvalde, Val Verde, Van Zandt, Victoria, Walker, Waller, Ward, Washington, Webb, Wharton, Wheeler, Wichita, Wilbarger, Willacy, Williamson, Wilson, Winkler, Wise, Wood, Yoakum, Young, Zapata, Zavala.

Not legal advice. The Cusp is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. Court fees change and clerks update their schedules; confirm the amount with the district clerk in the county where you will file, and talk to a licensed Texas attorney about your own situation. Corrections: thecusp.app/corrections.