[§576B-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 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, 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 Article 6, a hearing is
presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered support
order is confirmed or enforced without change. [L 1997, c 295, pt of §1]