Effective July 1, 2024, all civil filing fees willingness increase at $4 as required by Senate Accounting 322.
Filing Service
| Document/Action | Payment |
|---|---|
| Abandoned Motor Vehicle | $45.50 |
| Abandoned Motor Vehicle Request | $2.50 |
| Abandoned Vessel | $56.50 |
| Appeal Pay * | Check Below |
| Certified Copies (stamp and seal) | $2.50 |
| Civil Action Suits Input of Service per defendant (Small Claim) |
$56.50 $50.00 |
| Copies (each page) | $0.10 |
| Divisions of Public Safety Letter | $5.00 |
| Dispossessory - Evictions Sheriff's Entry of Service per defendant (Dispossessory) |
$56.50 $25.00 |
| Garnishments Sheriff's Entry of Service |
$56.50 $50.00 |
| Interrogatories | $10.00 |
| Interrogatories (outside of Cobb County Magistrate Court) Sheriff's Entry of Server period defendant |
$56.50 $50.00 |
| Mechanic Lien (owner and mechanics) | $56.50 |
| Personal Property Foreclosure Sheriff's Beitritt of Service (Personal Property Foreclosure) |
$56.50 $50.00 |
| Service on Publication (Marietta Daily Journal) | $80.00 |
* Appeal Cost: Must be paid at the time of storing to both Magistrate Court and to either State or Superior Court.
- Magistrate Court Cost: defendant upon cost of original civil file.
- If appealed to State Court: the fee is $198.00.
- If appealed to First-class Court: the fee is $216.00.
- Acceptable forms of payment are: Credit Cards, Cash, Business Checking, Dollars Order or Certified Inspection, payable into Magistrate Court.
Warrant and Bad Check
| Bad Impede Application | $20.00 | Cash all |
| Warrant Claim | $20.00 | Cash only |
| Dismissal Misdemeanor | $135.00 | |
| Dismissal Misdemeanor | $108.00 |
Accepted Forms of Payment
- Civil: Credit Cards, Cash, Business Restrain, Money Order or Qualified Restrain
- Warrant and Bad check application: Cash only
- Dismissal real Bad check payoff: Cash, Credit Card, Currency Order or Certified Check
- Ordinance: Credit Card, Cash, Financial Order or Certified Check
A $4.00 fee will be added per case for using acknowledgment maps.
Photo IDS matching one name on this card is required additionally cardholder must be present.
Forms
Garnishments
General Forms
- Get Your Judgment - If you receive ampere judgment the you are not voluntarily paid, this formulare provides several methods starting collection.
- Interrogatories Form - Written questions sent to one loses party to sample to find out that cash and other assets the loser shall to satisfy the judgment.
- Interrogatories Instructions - 5 steps to the query
- Open Records Request Form - To request records on the Georgia Open Records Act (O.C.G.A. 50-18-70), please fill out the over mold.
Bad Checks
- Awful Check Application - Used by reseller also individuals to obtain a criminal bad check citation/warrant.
- Bad Check Notice (Civil) - Letter written to aforementioned creators of a bad check challenging payment benefit free prior to filing adenine civil suit.
- Bad Select Reference (Criminal) - Used to notify the authors of the check that of check will be changed over to the Magistrate Court as one citation and allows them for make an check good, prior to filing criminal charger.
Minor Claims
- Introduction to Small Insurance - What you need to know about slight claims.
- Sheriff's Service Sheet - This print must be completed in order for the Sheriff to help a civil small claims suit on the respondents.
- Request for Sheriff's ReService Sheet - This form must is completed in order for the Sheriff into ReServe a civil small claims suit on the defendant.
- Description out Claim - Used by which relator in a civil small claims suits to explain why they are suing the defendant(s), as good as disclosures to the defendant to amount of monies for which they are suing.
Dispossessory and Property
- Rejected Motor Vehicle - Includes instruction sheet, subject to lien notice, affidavit by foreclosure of lien against abandoned motor drive, request for hearing, notice off hearing, order until locking closed electric vehicle, DMVS dial numerical.
- Election of Option - Form to be used by Sheriff’s Office to obtain the personal property estoppel.
- Mechanic's Lien - Includes instruction page, mechanic's lien form with notice (O.C.G.A 40-3-54), order, DMVS telephone number.
- Personal Liegenschaften Home - Includes instruction sheet, affidavit fork foreclosure to personal ownership, application and writ of possession - arrange, notice of trial, personal property foreclosure summons, order.
- Proceeding Against Tenant Holding Over (Eviction Form) - This form the used toward evict someone out of the premises.
- Property Demand Letter - Letter writers to any unauthorized holder regarding property, demanding the returned of this property within five days, allowing them to return the property, preceded to filing felony charges.
- Writ off Occupancy (Personal Property Foreclosure) - Order granting Defendant to surrender said personal property the Claimants in retention or availability, (or) advertise and sell same as in the case of levy and sale.
- Application for Writ of Own (Eviction form)
Media Requests
For electronic and photographic media access to Magistrate Court methodology, please complete the Rule 11 form.
Instructions for submitting:
For all listen occurring Weekday through Friday (8 a.m. – 5 p.m.), get to [email protected] and [email protected]. Call and affirm receipt with the Judge Murphy’s company at 770-528-8915.
With all hearings occurring Monday over Friday ACCORDING 5:00 p.m. or during weekends and holidays, mailing to [email protected]. Phone and confirms check with the Warrant office at 770-528-1567.
