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Discounted court filing fees that originated during the summer’s budget stalemate in Harrisburg have ended. State lawmakers this week reauthorized a $40.25 surcharge assessed on most court-related documents filed in courthouses throughout Pennsylvania. Since Aug. 1, the cost to file documents such as divorces, deeds and mortgages were discounted by
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Thanks to budget dysfunction in the state Capitol, people filing divorces, estates and many other legal actions across Pennsylvania are getting a financial break while courts lose
Divorce-seekers are in line for a discount. Costs to file court documents in Pennsylvania are more than $20 cheaper, for now. An under-the-radar casualty of the state’s financial uncertainty related to a monthlong budget impasse is an annual surcharge added to fees for the filing of most court documents. That
A recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court order affirmed that county president judges do not have authority to create special magisterial courts.