By law, the court clerk must charge a $210 fee to assign an index number to a Supreme Court case. District attorneys, police and public school officials are not required to pay the fee. But, the law requires school officials from private schools and members of the respondent’s family or household to pay. You can ask the court to waive the fee by completing and attaching a fee waiver application form. If you attach this form to your ERPO application, the clerk will take your papers and bring them to the judge without payment of the fee. The judge will decide your application for an ERPO and will also decide if you must pay the fee. The fee waiver decision is completely separate from the judge’s decision on your ERPO application. Use the fillable online fee waiver application form to complete and print your fee waiver request, and file it with the court along with your ERPO application.