Sunday 28 June 2015

Further update: Court fee increase disallowed

The Federal Courts Legislation Amendment (Fees) Regulation 2015 which was to increase fees in the family law courts was disallowed by the Senate on 25 June 2015.

The fee increase set out in my previous post will therefore not be implemented.

Tuesday 2 June 2015

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.