Vermont § 1313 - Costs and fees

§ 1313. Costs and fees

• (a) The petitioner must not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs. (b) If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal of this State may assess against an
  obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney’s fees, other costs, and necessary travel
  and other reasonable expenses incurred by the obligee and the obligee’s witnesses.
  The tribunal may not assess fees, costs, or expenses against the obligee or the support
  enforcement agency of either the initiating or the responding state or foreign country,
  except as provided by other law. Attorney’s fees may be taxed as costs, and may be
  ordered paid directly to the attorney, who may enforce the order in the attorney’s
  own name. Payment of support owed to the obligee has priority over fees, costs, and
  expenses. (c) The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable attorney’s fees if it
  determines that a hearing was requested primarily for delay. In an enforcement proceeding
  under chapter 16 of this title, a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily
  for delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change. (Added 2015, No. 16, § 2, eff. June 1, 2015.)