TITLE 39

HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 50

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR DISPLACED HOMEMAKER ACT

39-5009.  Displaced homemaker account — Fees on filing of divorce action. (1) There is hereby created in the state operating fund the displaced homemaker account. All fees collected pursuant to subsection (2) of this section shall be deposited in the account. All moneys in the account shall be available for appropriation to the state board for career technical education for the purposes of this chapter.

(2)  In addition to any other fees imposed for filing an action for divorce in the district court, there shall be collected a fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) for each divorce action. The clerk of the district court shall remit such fees, separately identified, to the state treasurer for deposit in the displaced homemaker account. Fees shall be remitted to the state treasurer at the same time as other court fees are remitted.

History:

[39-5009, added 1982, ch. 187, sec. 1, p. 505; am. 1999, ch. 329, sec. 24, p. 864; am. 2016, ch. 25, sec. 38, p. 56.]