The year 2025 brought with it a number of changes in various aspects of social life, in particular in the field of justice. One of the key elements that affects citizens’ access to justice is the court fee — the fee charged for hearing cases in court. It is not only a financial issue, but also a reflection of how the state balances between the need to ensure fair justice and its own financial interests. Lawyers are already analyzing the changes and clarifications made to the procedure for calculating and paying court fees in 2025.
Lawyers of the “Repeshko and Partners” Bar Association commented on what exactly the court fee will be in 2025 through the prism of practical application, and also told which categories of persons are exempt from it.
Tracking changes in court fee legislation is critically important, because it depends not only on the amount of money that will need to be paid, but also on the conditions of access to court. Complicating or simplifying procedures can significantly affect the number of court appeals and the level of trust in the judicial system as a whole. One of the important guarantees of a citizen’s rights is access to justice in order to protect one’s rights and freedoms. But this access has never been free, except for a few privileged categories and cases, which will be mentioned later. Each statement of claim or statement of a separate proceeding, statement, as well as separate procedural motions shall not be accepted by the court without consideration without payment of a court fee.
For what and in what amount is the court fee paid
A court fee is a fee charged throughout the territory of Ukraine for submitting applications, complaints to the court, for issuing documents by the courts, as well as in the case of the adoption of individual court decisions provided for by this Law.
Note that the court fee is tied to the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons, and this amount is set separately for each year by the Law of Ukraine on the State Budget for the relevant year. Since the specified amount changes during the year, the court fee is still calculated from the amount established as of January 1 of the relevant year.
The court fee is handled by:
- for submitting to the court a statement of claim and other statement provided for by procedural legislation;
- for filing appeals and cassation appeals against court decisions, applications for review of court decisions in connection with newly discovered circumstances, applications for annulment of an arbitration court decision, applications for issuing an executive document for enforcement of an arbitration court decision, and applications for review of court decisions by the Supreme Court Court of Ukraine;
- for issuing documents by courts;
- in the event of a court decision listed in the Law “On Court Fees”.
The court fee is not charged for filing:
- applications to change or establish the method, order and term of execution of a court decision;
- applications for the reversal of execution of a court decision;
- applications for the issuance of an additional court decision;
- applications for dissolution of marriage with a person recognized as missing in accordance with the procedure established by law;
- applications for the establishment of the fact of disability, if it is necessary to assign a pension or receive assistance under the mandatory state social insurance;
- statements on establishing the fact of death of a person who went missing under circumstances that threatened him with death or give grounds to consider him dead from a certain accident as a result of man-made and natural emergencies;
- applications to provide a person with compulsory psychiatric care;
- applications for mandatory hospitalization in an anti-tuberculosis institution;
- applications for the issuance of a restraining order;
- a statement of claim for compensation for damage caused to a person by illegal decisions, actions or inaction of a state authority, an authority of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea or a local self-government body, their official or official, as well as by illegal decisions, actions or inaction of bodies that carry out operational and investigative activities of pre-trial investigation bodies, the prosecutor’s office or the court;
- statements, appeals and cassational complaints about the protection of the rights of minors or minors;
- a request for the recognition and enforcement of a foreign court decision in accordance with an international treaty of Ukraine, the binding consent of which has been granted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and which does not provide for a fee when going to court, filing appeals and cassation complaints in such cases;
- statements on the establishment of the fact of death of a person who died or went missing in the areas of hostilities or anti-terrorist operations and the implementation of measures to ensure national security and defense, repulse and deter armed aggression of the Russian Federation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions;
- a statement of claim, an appeal in cases of temporary restriction of the right of citizens of Ukraine to travel outside the territory of Ukraine;
- appeals and cassational appeals against the court decision, issued as a result of the review of the appeal against the decision, actions or inaction of the state executive or other official of the state executive service body, or a private executive during the execution of the court decision.
As of January 1, 2025, the living wage in Ukraine for an able-bodied person will remain at the same level as in 2024, and will be the same 3,028 UAH. We will quote the rates of the court fee in different cases.
| The name of the document and the action for which the court fee is paid, and the payer of the court fee | Court fee rate | Living wage for an able-bodied person for 2025 | ||
| 3 028,00 | ||||
| 1. For submission to a court of general jurisdiction: | Minimum | Maximum (no more) | ||
| 1) a claim of a property nature that has been filed | 1 percent of the claim price, but not less than 0.4 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons and no more than 5 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons | 1 211,20 | 15 140,00 | |
| an individual or an individual entrepreneur | ||||
| 2) the statement of claim of a non-property nature, which has been submitted
physical person |
0.4 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons |
1 211,20 |
1 211,20 |
|
| 3) claim statement:
on divorce |
0.4 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons | 1 211,20 | 1 211,20 | |
| on the division of property upon divorce | 1 percent of the claim price, but not less than 0.4 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons and no more than 3 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons | 1 211,20 | 9 084,00 | |
| 4) statements in separate proceedings; applications for providing evidence or a claim; applications for review of absentee decisions; applications for annulment of the decision of the arbitration court (international commercial arbitration); applications for the issuance of an executive document for the enforcement of an arbitration court decision (international commercial arbitration); applications for the issuance of an executive document based on the decision of a foreign court; applications for clarification of the court decision that have been submitted; applications for assistance to the arbitral tribunal (international commercial arbitration) in obtaining evidence”; applications for clarification of the court decision, which have been submitted
physical person |
0.2 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons |
605,60 |
605,60 |
|
| 4-1) applications for the issuance of a court order | 0.1 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons | 302,80 | ||
| 4-2) applications for annulment of the court order | 0.05 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons | 151,40 | ||
| 4-3) applications to cancel the temporary restriction of an individual’s right to leave Ukraine | 0.2 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons | 605,60 | ||
| 5) a claim for the protection of the honor and dignity of an individual, the business reputation of an individual or a legal entity, namely: | ||||
| claim of a non-property nature | 0.4 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons | 1 211,20 | 1 211,20 | |
| claim for moral damages | 1.5 percent of the claim price, but not less than 1 amount of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons | 3 028,00 | not limited | |
| 6) an appeal against a court decision; applications for joining an appeal against a court decision; an appeal against a court order, an application for a review of a court decision in connection with newly discovered circumstances | 150 percent of the rate that was payable when filing a claim, other statement and complaint | 4 542,00 | 1 589 700,00 | |
| 7) a cassation appeal against a court decision; applications to join a cassation appeal against a court decision | 200 percent of the rate that was payable when filing a claim, other statement and complaint | 6 056,00 | 2 119 600,00 | |
| 9) appeal and cassation appeal against the court decision; applications for joining an appeal or cassation appeal against a court decision
physical person |
0.2 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons |
605,60 |
605,60 |
|
| 2. For submission to the administrative court: | ||||
| 1) administrative claim: | ||||
| of a property nature, which is submitted:
|
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| an individual or an individual entrepreneur | 1 percent of the claim price, but not less than 0.4 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons and no more than 5 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons | 1 211,20 | 15 140,00 | |
| of a non-property nature, which is submitted: | ||||
| physical person
|
0.4 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons | 1 211,20 | 1 211,20 | |
| 2) an appeal against a court decision, an application to join an appeal against a court decision, an application for a review of a court decision due to newly discovered circumstances | 150 percent of the rate that was payable when filing a claim statement, other statement and complaint, but no more than 15 amounts of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons | 4 542,00 | 45 420,00 | |
| 3) a cassation appeal against a court decision, an application to join a cassation appeal against a court decision | 200 percent of the rate that was payable when filing a claim, but no more than 20 times the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons | 6 056,00 | 60 560,00 | |
| 5) appeal and cassation appeal against the court decision; applications for joining an appeal or cassation appeal against a court decision | 1 amount of subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons | 3 028,00 | 3 028,00 | |
| 6) applications for the provision of evidence or a lawsuit, applications for the issuance of an executive document based on a foreign court decision, applications for changing or establishing the method, order and term of execution of a court decision | 0.3 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons | 908,40 | 908,40 | |
At the same time, for the issuance of documents by the courts, the payments will be as follows:
1) for reissuing a copy of the court decision – 0.003 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons for each sheet of paper, which is UAH 9.08.
2) for issuing in electronic form a copy of the technical record of the court session – 0.03 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons, which is UAH 90.84.
3) for the production of a copy of a court decision in the event that a person who does not (did not) participate in the case, if the court decision directly concerns his rights, freedoms, interests or obligations, applies to the apparatus of the relevant court with a written application for the production of such a copy in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On Access to Court Decisions” 0.003 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons for each sheet of copy is UAH 9.08.
4) for making copies of documents attached to the case – 0.003 of the living wage for able-bodied persons for each sheet of copy, which is UAH 9.08.
At the same time, if the court passes a decision on the imposition of an administrative fine, it will be necessary to pay 0.2 of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons, which is UAH 605.60.
Who is exempt from the court fee
It is necessary to know that the following are exempted from paying the court fee during the consideration of the case in all courts based on Article 6 of the Law of Ukraine “On Court Fees”:
1) plaintiffs – in cases of wage collection and reinstatement;
2) plaintiffs – in cases of compensation for damage caused by mutilation or other health damage, as well as death of a natural person;
3) plaintiffs – in cases of collection of alimony, increase of its amount, payment of additional expenses for the child, collection of a penalty (penalty) for late payment of alimony, indexation of alimony or change of the method of their collection, as well as applicants in the case of filing an application for the issuance of a court order on collection of alimony;
5) persons suffering from mental disorders and their representatives – in cases regarding disputes related to the consideration of issues related to the protection of the rights and legitimate interests of a person during the provision of psychiatric care;
6) plaintiffs – in cases of compensation for material losses caused as a result of the commission of a criminal offense;
7) citizens who, in the cases provided for by law, applied to the court to protect the rights and interests of other persons;
8) persons with disabilities as a result of the Second World War and families of soldiers (partisans) who died or went missing, and persons equated to them in the established order
9) persons with disabilities of groups I and II, legal representatives of children with disabilities and incapacitated persons with disabilities;
10) the plaintiffs are citizens assigned to the 1st and 2nd categories of victims of the Chernobyl disaster;
12) military personnel, conscripts and reservists who are called to training (or inspection) and special meetings – in cases related to the performance of military duty, as well as during the performance of official duties;
13) participants in hostilities, injured participants of the Revolution of Dignity, Heroes of Ukraine – in cases related to the violation of their rights;
14) plaintiffs – in cases in the order specified Article 12 the Law of Ukraine “On Refugees and Persons in Need of Additional or Temporary Protection”;
15) natural persons (except entities of entrepreneurial activity) – creditors who apply to the debtor with monetary claims for payment of arrears from wages, obligations due to damage to life and health of citizens, payment of royalties and alimony, – after announcement of the opening of bankruptcy (insolvency) proceedings, as well as after notification of the debtor’s bankruptcy;
16) plaintiffs – for filing lawsuits regarding disputes related to the granting of the status of a participant in hostilities in accordance with paragraphs 19-21 the first part of Article 6 of the Law of Ukraine “On the status of war veterans, guarantees of their social protection”;
21) applicants – in cases of applications for the establishment of facts of legal significance submitted in connection with armed aggression, armed conflict, temporary occupation of the territory of Ukraine, natural or man-made emergencies that led to forced resettlement from temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, death, injury, stay in captivity, illegal deprivation of liberty or abduction, loss of documents necessary to receive compensation for damaged and destroyed objects of immovable property as a result of hostilities, acts of terrorism, sabotage caused by the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, as well as violation of the right of ownership of movable and/or immovable property;
22) plaintiffs – in cases of claims against the aggressor state of the Russian Federation for compensation for property and/or moral damage caused in connection with the temporary occupation of the territory of Ukraine, armed aggression, armed conflict that led to forced resettlement from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, death, injury, captivity, illegal deprivation of liberty or abduction, as well as violation of the right to property movable and/or immovable property.
We have provided you with a sample made for natural persons – citizens with the preservation of the relevant clause of the article. The fact is that when submitting a statement of claim/statement to the relevant court, it is necessary to indicate in their text on the basis of which rule the person is exempted from paying the court fee.
In 2025, it is important to carefully monitor changes in the rules for paying court fees to avoid misunderstandings and unexpected costs. If you plan to go to court, find out in advance about the current collection rates and possible benefits. This will allow you to correctly calculate the budget and save time.
We advise you to carefully study the conditions under which the court fee can be reduced or canceled altogether. In case of difficulties, contact lawyers who will help you draw up the necessary documents and provide clarification on the nuances of the legislation.
Remember that proper preparation for the court process is the key to its successful completion. At the same time, obtaining a preliminary consultation can save resources and simplify interaction with the court system.
