Update: New Court fees

I posted a week or so ago about the announcement in the budget that Court fees will be increasing as at 1 July 2015.

The Federal Courts Legislation Amendment (Fees) Regulation 2015, assented on 28 May 2015, sets out the new fees. The most common are:

• The filing fee for an Application for Divorce is increasing from $845 to $1195;  
• The Initiating Application fee increases from $320 to $350;
• The fee to issue a Subpoena increases from $55 to $120;
• An Application for Consent Orders fee increases from $155 to $235; and
• The setting down for hearing fee increases from $805 in the Family Court and $590 in the Federal Circuit Court to $885 and $650 respectively. 

There is also a new fee that has been announced - for filing an amended Initiating Application or Response. The fee is $120. Previously there was no fee to file an amending document.