What the Justice Court Clerk charges to file an eviction or a small claims case, what the constable charges to serve it, and how to ask the court to waive the fees.
Everything the clerk charges on an eviction or small claims case in Greenlee County. The figures set by state statute are verified and apply here. A dash means we have not yet read this county’s own schedule — not that the fee is zero.
| Fee | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Eviction filing — possession + rent claim | — | |
| Eviction filing — possession only | — | |
| Appearance fee — eviction defendant | — | There is no fee to answer or appear in an eviction case in Arizona. A.R.S. § 22-281 does not list a defendant's fee for a forcible entry and detainer filing the way it does for an ordinary civil case, and Maricopa and Pima County both advertise the eviction answer as free. |
| Appearance fee — small claims defendant | — | |
| Jury demand — 12 jurors | — | Arizona justice courts do not use 12-person juries at all. A.R.S. § 12-1176 sets a justice court eviction jury at six people; a 12-member jury is not part of Arizona's justice court practice. |
| Jury demand — 6 jurors | — | A six-person jury is available on demand in a justice court eviction case under A.R.S. § 12-1176, and none of the county fee schedules we checked charge anything to request one. |
| Jury demand — small claims | — | There is no jury trial in Arizona small claims at all. The state's self-service center says plainly that small claims filers do not have the right to a jury trial or the right to appeal. |
| Mediation fee | — | |
| E-filing surcharge | — | We found no separate e-filing surcharge for a civil or eviction filing in the counties we checked. A.R.S. § 22-284 does let a justice court charge up to $100 a year plus $2 a minute for on-line access to court records, which is a records-access subscription fee, not a per-case e-filing surcharge, and e-filing itself is not mandatory for a self-represented filer anywhere we checked. |
The filing fee is not the whole bill. Somebody has to serve the defendant, and in Arizona the constable sets that price county by county — it is the most variable number on this page. Of the counties we checked, the eviction filing fee itself ran from $41.00 (Yavapai) to $71.00 (Pima). Constable service is set by a statewide statute rather than the county, at $16.00 to serve a summons and at least $48.00 (more by the hour past three hours) to execute a writ of restitution, plus $2.40 per mile, but we could not confirm a single precinct's real-world all-in total against a live page.
Arizona courts will waive court fees, costs, and charges for people below certain income levels, under A.R.S. § 12-302 and Arizona Supreme Court Administrative Order 2015-97. There is one statewide form — you do not need a Greenlee County version of it.
| The court waives | If your available income is |
|---|---|
| Deferral | You receive TANF, SNAP or SSI, or your household income is at or below 150% of the federal poverty level, or you have income above that but extraordinary expenses that bring you effectively below it. Fees are postponed rather than cancelled, and you sign a consent allowing a judgment against you for the unpaid fees if you do not pay or seek further deferral within 30 days after your case ends. |
| Full waiver | You show you are permanently unable to pay: your income and liquid assets cannot cover basic living expenses now and are not likely to improve. This is a higher bar than the deferral test, and it is the only tier where fees are cancelled outright rather than postponed. |
Arizona is graduated in a different way than Illinois or Florida. Rather than income bands that each waive a percentage of the fee, A.R.S. § 12-302 sets up two distinct remedies: deferral, which most low-income filers qualify for and which only delays payment, and full waiver, reserved for people who are permanently unable to pay at all. The court's own guidance also publishes four gross-monthly-income reference points, at 150%, 175%, 200% and 225% of the federal poverty guidelines, which it uses in assessing deferral and extraordinary-expense claims, but we could not find a public breakdown of exactly what changes at each of those four levels, so we are not printing a percentage-by-band table the way we would for a true sliding scale.
Fee waiver information verified August 1, 2026 against the Illinois General Assembly statute text and the Illinois Courts approved-forms library. We report what the statute and the form say. We cannot tell you whether you qualify — that is the court's decision.
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There is no single statewide e-filing system the way Georgia has PeachCourt. Arizona Code of Judicial Administration § 1-901 requires attorneys and legal paraprofessionals to e-file in superior court and in every justice court except the justice courts in Maricopa County and the Pima County Consolidated Justice Court, which run their own separate e-filing systems. For a self-represented tenant or landlord, e-filing is not mandatory anywhere we checked, and paper filing at the clerk's counter remains available. eFileIL →
We publish the court's and clerk's own contact information and link to their pages. We do not take your information, route you to anyone, or file anything on your behalf. For questions about court procedure — as opposed to what it costs — use the Illinois Courts self-help center.
Arizona has a real statewide floor and real county-by-county variation on top of it, which makes it closer to Georgia than to Florida. The Legislature set the base forcible entry and detainer filing fee at $35.00 in A.R.S. § 22-281, and the Arizona Supreme Court raised it to $41.00 statewide effective December 28, 2024 under Administrative Order 2024-211, using the cost-of-living authority in § 22-281(F). That $41.00 is a floor, not a ceiling: individual justice courts are expressly allowed to add local fees on top of it, and they do. Of the counties we checked, Yavapai County charges exactly the $41.00 statewide baseline with nothing added, Apache County charges $52.00, Maricopa County (all 26 justice precincts, on one countywide schedule) charges $69.00, and Pima County charges $71.00. That is a spread of $41 to $71 for the same filing, a 73 percent difference between the cheapest and most expensive county we verified.
This is the statewide baseline schedule set by the Arizona Supreme Court's Administrative Order 2024-211, effective December 28, 2024, under the CPI-adjustment authority in A.R.S. § 22-281(F). Unlike Florida's schedule, this is a floor rather than the final word: it is what a justice court must charge at minimum, and the individual county pages we checked show the real, higher, advertised total.
Statutory backbone: A.R.S. § 22-281 — Fees and deposits (justice courts). A.R.S. § 22-281, class C fee (forcible entry and detainer filings), currently printed in the statute at $35.00. § 22-281(F) lets the Arizona Supreme Court raise the class A through G fees printed in the statute by the change in the consumer price index since the last increase, without going back to the Legislature. The Court used that authority in Administrative Order 2024-211, effective December 28, 2024, which is why every justice court's actual advertised eviction filing fee is $41.00, not the $35.00 printed in the statute text itself. The $41.00 figure is confirmed on the Arizona Courts' own statewide fee page, not just the codified statute, so we are treating it as current. Anything a county charges above $41.00 is a local addition that neither the statute nor the administrative order explains line by line. Statute text checked August 1, 2026.
Compiled and verified by David Scott. We re-check every source document monthly and re-read any county whose schedule has changed. If the clerk quotes you something different from what is on this page, tell us and we will fix it. Read the full methodology.