§ 580-313. Costs and fees. (a) The petitioner may 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 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 a proceeding under part six of this article, a hearing is
presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered
support order is confirmed or enforced without change.