Opinion of the Clerk

RULE 7, ALABAMA RULES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION — FILING FEES — COUNTERCLAIM FOR MODIFICATION OF CHILD SUPPORT

ESDALE, Clerk.

Honorable Paul S. Conger, Jr., Circuit Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has made the following request to the Clerk of the Supreme Court for an opinion pursuant to § 12-2-19(d), Ala.Code (1975):

“I’m writing you to request an opinion regarding whether or not a new filing fee is required when a defendant to a domestic complaint for contempt files his answer and counterclaim for modification of child support when the matter will be heard by the court as…