Filing Fees & Forms
Filing Information
The Clerk’s Office at 800 Broadway, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202, accepts filings for custody, companionship and visitation, child support, paternity and other matters as listed below. Parties can also pay costs and fines at the Clerk’s Office, and post bonds or pay purges. The Clerk’s Office is open Monday through Friday, 8 A.M. to 4 P.M. In person filings are not accepted after 3:30 P.M. The Clerk’s Office is closed on Court holidays.
The Assessment Center, 264 William Howard Taft Road, accepts complaint filings by parents, guardians and agency workers between 8 A,M. and 4 P.M. Call 513-946-7653 for more information.
The Youth Center’s Intake Office accepts complaint filings by police and agency workers and bond and purge payments 24-hours per day, 365 days per year. Please contact the Youth Center Intake Office at (513) 946-2612 for more information.
Filing Fees
CUSTODY
- New Case: $165.00
- Existing Case: $150.00
- Contempt of Custody: $150.00
COMPANIONSHIP (Visitation)
- New Case: $165.00
- Existing Case: $150.00
- Contempt of Companionship: $150.00
CHILD SUPPORT
- New Case: $100.00
- Modification of Support: $100.00
- Contempt of Support: $100.00
- Terminate Support: $100.00
PATERNITY
- Parent-Child Relationship: $115.00
- Motion to Set Aside Paternity (60B): $100.00
- Foreign Decree (out of state): $75.00
OTHER
- Permission to Marry: $70
- Habeus Corpus: $150.00
- Mitigate: $50.00
- Driver’s License Restoration: $50.00
- Production of Transcripts: TBD by Court Reporter
- Publication: $100.00
Court Forms
The Court Forms are downloadable, in PDF (Adobe Acrobat Reader) format.
- Appealing a Judge's Entry
- Motion to Set Aside a Magistrate's Order
- Objecting to a Magistrate's Decision
- Objecting to an Administrative Order of Child Support
- Motion For Reconsideration
- Custody - Parent
- Custody Shared Parenting
- Custody - Non Parent
- Parenting Time (Visitation)
- Companionship Non Parent
- Custody - Filed for Passport Services
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Additional Custody Forms
- Motion to Modify Legal Custody
- Motion to Modify/Terminate Shared Parenting
- Motion to Modify Parenting Time/Visitation
- Proposed Shared Parenting Plan
- Standard Parenting Time Schedule
- Standard Companionship Schedule
- Contempt
- Agreed Entry
- Notice of Intent to Relocate
- Exhibit List
- Standard Parenting Time Schedule
- Notice of Intent to Relocate
- Power of Attorney (signed by parent/guardian/custodian)
- Caretaker Authorization Affidavit (unable to locate parent)
- Additional Power of Attorney and Caretaker Authorization Affidavit Forms
- Filing for Child Support (New Case)
- Additional Support Forms