Section 580-313. Costs and fees  


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  • (a) The petitioner may not be required to
      pay a filing fee or other costs.
        (b) If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal 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, 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 part six of this article (enforcement
      and modification of support order  after  registration),  a  hearing  is
      presumed  to  have  been  requested  primarily for delay if a registered
      support order is confirmed or enforced without change.