Opinion No.

The Honorable Tom Wynne Prosecuting Attorney Thirteenth Judicial District P.O. Box 748 Fordyce, Arkansas 71742

Dear Mr. Wynne:

This is in response to your request for an opinion concerning the collection of chancery court filing fees from the Union County Child Support Enforcement Unit ("Unit"). Specifically, you note that Op. Att'y Gen. 93-137 concluded that the Child Support Enforcement Unit was not exempt from the payment of filing fees in chancery court with regard to actions filed under A.C.A. 9-14-105. You also note, however, that the Unit did not pay filing fees for such cases in 1991,…