Filing (legal) 1136991 219467189 2008-06-15T11:00:31Z LatitudeBot 6771835 robot Adding: [[ru:Иск]] {{Unreferenced|date=June 2008}} {{POV|date=December 2007}} In [[law]], '''filing''' is the act of submitting a [[document]] to the [[clerk]] of a [[court]] for the court's immediate consideration, for storage in the court's files, or both. Courts will not consider [[Motion (legal)|motions]] unless an appropriate [[memorandum]] or [[brief]] is filed before the appropriate [[deadline]]. Usually a filing [[fee]] is paid at the same time; such filing fees are one part of the variety of charges that are known as ''court costs.'' Filing may also refer to submission of a [[Form (document)|form]] to a [[government agency]], with or without an accompanying fee. Filing fees are controversial because they impede access to [[justice]]. Although American [[litigant]]s complain about fees all the time (for example, it costs $300 to file a document in court in [[Los Angeles]]), the American system is considered to be quite [[plaintiff]]-friendly by [[lawyer]]s. Many legal systems have filing fees for complaints that are ''proportional'' to the amount sought. Thus, the greater the damaged sought the higher the fee to file. Even when one seeks a waiver for grossly unfair fees, courts tend to waive only the amount in excess of the plaintiff's total assets, with the perverse result that just to initiate a meritorious case, an already severely injured or damaged plaintiff may have to go [[bankrupt]]. [[Category:Legal terms]] [[Category:Legal procedure]] {{law-stub}} [[bg:Иск]] [[cs:Žaloba]] [[de:Klage]] [[el:Αγωγή]] [[ka:სარჩელი]] [[pl:Pozew]] [[ru:Иск]] [[tr:Dava]] [[sk:Žaloba]]