§ 9-12-135.Clerk’s fees

Filing a foreign judgment under this article is not free, and this section ties the charge to a fee schedule Georgia already has on the books rather than inventing a separate one just for this article. A person filing a foreign judgment pays the clerk the same sum a plaintiff would pay to file an ordinary civil case in superior court, under Georgia’s general court-fees statute.

A different track applies to a narrow category of filings: registering a guardianship or conservatorship order issued by another state under the separate Title 29 procedure for those orders. Someone registering that kind of order pays the probate court the fee charged for adult guardianship matters in probate court, rather than the superior-court civil filing fee. The article treats that registration as its own kind of filing, with its own matching fee, even though the mechanics otherwise track this article’s filing procedure.

Beyond the initial filing fee, this section does not try to set every cost a creditor might incur while enforcing the judgment. Subsection (b) leaves that to whatever law already governs those later steps: fees for enforcement proceedings that follow the filing — garnishment, execution, and the rest — come from those other statutes, not from this article.